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Brian D'Ambrosio QUOTES

Brian D'Ambrosio QUOTES

1 " Creativity is always a leap of faith. Writers sit down in front of empty pages. Painters stare before blank easels. Thespians rehearse looking toward empty stages. Creativity is experimental by nature. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio ,

2 " I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio

3 " The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio

4 " American dream,
a spouse,
a brace of children,
cuddly pets,
coffee-table books,
rusted skeleton keys,
plastic cauliflower bags,
business cards of business-card printers,
a mound of used airmail envelopes.
Old house on moving day,
all echoes and loneliness. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

5 " Happiness is a habit,
it’s more than fleeting,
more than a disintegrating lozenge. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio

6 " One thing that unites triumphant entrepreneurs, whether in Brooklyn, San Francisco or Great Falls, Montana, is strength of character.Individuality is the goal that we all strive to excel at in some way; the notion that we are distinct, special, that there is something teachable about our wisdom, something remarkable about our outlook. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio ,

7 " The stony silence of death,
trapped by the original gravity of our sins,
and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn,
a world where blood and bone no longer matter. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

8 " On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Life in the Trenches

9 " Life,
perhaps less a document than an impression,
conveyed through partial glances,
stream-of-consciousness juxtapositions,
unpredictable rhythms,
a collage of sound,
a conscientious diarist,
a career of blackmail and scandal culminated in murder,
a blind man with a will of iron and a nervous system of gossamer. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

10 " Life is calmness with squabbling,
accumulating traditions and self-consciousness.
elaborate meals, medicine, law,
pretty pictures unspoiled,
rocking the cradle and holding the hammer,
impressive skies of gray and blue,
believing in what we can’t settle,
the mystery of iniquity,
the absolutely sincere predictions of fools,
lighter moods like these. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

11 " Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,
and sets things in true perspective. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

12 " Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

13 " Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

14 " Time
concocted by caffeine
unnervingly familiar
a ferociousness that sucks you in
even as it wears you down "

― Brian D'Ambrosio

15 " A pickup truck is a fragile ego overcompensated "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Sentiment and Sediment: 21 Poems (Heyday Books)

16 " To those who advocate that America follow the Chinese model of a totalitarian lockdown because of a virus or flu strain, must remember that the Maoist principle of Chinese rule is founded on total control of the populace, with the loss of freedom on every front: of speech, movement, work, information. Americans shouldn't be drinking the green tea so unquestioningly. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio

17 " Heart resides
where crumbling churches give way to blossoming trees
empty storefronts to towering mansions
it doesn’t want just another heist movie
or an illusion of cleavage
it’s not accidental or meaningless
it wants to be known "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Halcyon Days and Stormy Months: 21 Poems

18 " The heart is only grain and goats
and the price of health
it cleans it rifles
smokes its herbs
breaks out a beer bottle or two
its precious radios
strapped up for protection
with ragged black tape "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Halcyon Days and Stormy Months: 21 Poems

19 " Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio , Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

20 " Short lives,

bouncing harmlessly as a cloth doll on grandma’s lap.

Small helpless states,

pretentiousness garbed in the unintelligible,

makers of disposable art,

the zeal to make a scoop unstoppable,

pacified by fresh news,

of scrabbling sexy movements. "

― Brian D'Ambrosio