Marguerite Young Quotes

American - Author | August 28, 1908 - November 17, 1995

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Marguerite Young

LeaderParadiseLostSayUtopia

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Marguerite Young

LeaderYouIllusionPersonKnow

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

Marguerite Young

UniverseOutMayFlawComeFlawed

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

Marguerite Young

LifeBeginningEndMiddle

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

Marguerite Young

NeverSingleOne ThingKnewEvery

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

Marguerite Young

BeginningBookBeenBooksWritten

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

Marguerite Young

LossWriteOldFirstEverything

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

Marguerite Young

LeaderRealityMustIdeaFollowing

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Marguerite Young

PhilosophyRealismWhoSomeThem

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Marguerite Young

BelieveStrongPoliticalWithout

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Marguerite Young

DeathMeLawyerWeddingStrangeHer

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

Marguerite Young

DreamAlwaysBeingCamePursued

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