Quotes by Marguerite Young - Page 1

Don't blindly follow any leader.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Hallucinations
Leader
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Life has no beginning, middle or end.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Ends
Middle
Life Beginning End
Beginning
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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Dream
Pursued
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we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Fate
Realizing
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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Book
Has Beens
Written
Beginning
One Book
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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Flawed
Flaws
May
Flaw
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Character
Obsession
Writing
Obsessions
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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Careers
Publishing
Willing
Years
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
Marguerite Young / Poet
Augustine
Bible
Has Beens
Saint
Influenced
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Age
Old Age
Poet
Young
Poets
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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Love
Speak
Attacked
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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Following
Ideas
Leader
Reality
Scrutinized
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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Every Single Thing
Single Thing
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Midnight
Night
Nine
Six
Sleep
Teach
Writing
Hour
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Money
Association
Awards
University
Award
Received
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Devotion
Real
Talent
Writers
Sustain
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Causes
Leader
Paradise
Theme
Utopia
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Believe
Conscience
Consciousness
Poetic
Political
Strong
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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 / Poet
Loss
Writing
Years
Expressed
Poem
Themes
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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Faces
Heart
Soul
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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 / Poet
Insert
Passages
Philosophy
Poetic
Realism
Writers
Revert
Texts
Underlying
Uphold
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Men
Born
Doomed
Fate
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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 / Poet
Leadership
Abyss
Hallucinations
Illusion
Insane
Leader
Sane
Person
Understand
Any
Blindly
Follow
Hallucination
Must
Over
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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Eliot
Joseph Smith
Influenced
Joseph
Mormons
Smith
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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 / Poet
Wedding
Ghouls
Gowns
Married
Strange
Discovered
Trunk
Opened
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I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Time
Rage
Teaching
Writing
Time Women See
Although
Notice
Preoccupied
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Believe
Desire
Obsession
Structure
All My Work
Rediscovered
Search
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Marguerite Young / Poet
America
Annie
Chaplin
Character
Fantastic
Littles
Orphan
James
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I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Time
Decent
Fun
Seeking
Years
Time Me Fun
Review
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I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Hands
Thinking
Voice
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I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Emulate
Me Voice People
Pick
Thoughts
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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Book
Consciousness
Mean
Writing
Avoid
Good Writer
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Abandon
Book
Drunkards
Poetic
Prose
Real
Realism
Realistic
Surreal
Writing
People Never Real
Forth
Weave
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Beauty
Journey
May
Might
Nevertheless
Reality
Recognition
Single
Utopia
Writing
Before
Side
Bridge
Exist
Towards
Reach
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Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Community
Long
People
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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl
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Ideas
People
Reality
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Women
Names
Writing
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Marguerite Young / Poet
Hysterical
Reviewers
Tone
Men Women Me
Male
Cruel
Suffered
Destroy
Women Men Me
Seemed
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I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.
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Flower
People
Personality
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