James Richardson Quotes
born 1950 United States
James Richardson (January 1 1950) is an American poet.
- United States
- Poets
87 quotes
I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.
If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.
The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t.
Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.
A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.
The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us.
Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.
I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
There are crimes I don’t commit mainly because I don’t want to find out I could.
Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?
Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?
Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.