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James Richardson Quotes

born 1950 United States

James Richardson (January 1 1950) is an American poet.

United States
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Anger has been ready to be angry.

Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

I lied. And my embarrassment was so great that I changed everything else to make the lie true.

Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

I’ll buy that means also I believe it.

Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. … Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.

Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

What did you do today? Nothing say our little children, and so do I. What we most are is what we keep mistaking for nothing.

Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Birds of prey don’t sing.

Interglacial (2004)

Patience is decisive indecision.

Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.