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Patricia Hampl Quotes

Writing was the soul of everything else... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person Picture Quote #1

Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day’s deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again Picture Quote #1

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them Picture Quote #1

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all Picture Quote #1

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy Picture Quote #1

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts Picture Quote #1

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Landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated Picture Quote #1

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that’s the implacable judgment of feeling Picture Quote #1

The artist’s work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor Picture Quote #1

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is Picture Quote #1

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world Picture Quote #1

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Writing was the soul of everything else... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day’s deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again (Patricia Hampl Quotes) I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them (Patricia Hampl Quotes) The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all (Patricia Hampl Quotes) The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy (Patricia Hampl Quotes) French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated (Patricia Hampl Quotes) We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that’s the implacable judgment of feeling (Patricia Hampl Quotes) The artist’s work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor (Patricia Hampl Quotes) Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is (Patricia Hampl Quotes) True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world (Patricia Hampl Quotes)

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