Alice Fulton Quotes
Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
Alice Fulton, “About Face”
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
Alice Fulton (1990). “Powers of Congress: Poems”, p.2, Sarabande Books
Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company
Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company
