Floyd Skloot Quotes

In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

Floyd Skloot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 6, 1947

Topics

PoetryBankRareHerSomethingIdea

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

John Hurt

FocusDoneNeverSuccessfulHalf

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

LiveDaySomeoneDoingYouPerfect

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.

Steve Southerland

WorkGodBlessingPeopleBelieveUp

Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.

Mike Posner

GoVeryOftenHonestlyClubs

I don't talk in sound bites.

Michael Moore

TalkSoundBitesSound Bites

Getting elected as a Republican in Massachusetts is very, very different from being elected as a Republican in New Hampshire.

Corey Lewandowski

NewRepublicanBeingDifferentVery

I drove motorcycles through college. I didn't have the money to buy a car.

Chuck Liddell

CarMoneyCollegeThroughBuyDrove

I've played for St. Etienne, and the fans told me I should never go to Lyon. So I didn't go.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

MeGoNeverFansShouldPlayed

Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.

Sun Yat-sen

FutureJusticeBeginningSeedsRich

That's the great part about television: It's alive, and it changes and evolves with the way the characters evolve. Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show.

Thomas Jane

LifeGreatEndYouTelevisionAlive

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

Todd Rundgren

BelieveRealityWorryYouNever

When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

Tim Ryan

GoodJobPeopleColorBlackYou

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