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Father Crow and Other Poems QUOTES

Father Crow and Other Poems QUOTES

1 " I was born with my eyes turned inward. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems

2 " Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems

3 " Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems

4 " I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems

5 " Sincerity is the defence of every misanthrope. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems

6 " Poetry is a beacon slicer. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems

7 " A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares. "

― David Joseph Cribbin , Father Crow and Other Poems