Jennifer Stone Quotes

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

Love is all there's time for.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

Longing is all that lasts.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

History repeats herself.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.