There are two versions
There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version Galway Kinnell
Quotes for All
There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version Galway Kinnell
Crying is part of the adventure. Gail Carson Levine
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. My gift is obedience. Ella will always be … Read more
I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria. Gail Carson Levine
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour … Read more
My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry. Gabrielle Zevin
And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I’d thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow. Gabrielle Zevin
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be. Gabrielle Zevin
Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience’s heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero. Gabriel Campisi
If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium! Gabriel Faure