St. Vincent Quotes

So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

Marc didn’t want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever.

Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

If you live in the dark long enough, you start to forget what light looks like.

"Levi will kill me the minute he sees me, and I don't trust Madeline. There's something in her eyes..." "I believe that's integrity and dedication in her job." "Yeah. It's disturbing."

Sophie glanced from me to Sabine, then back, scowling. "I'm not scared of her. I can handle myself." "Yeah, and hissing kittens think they're badass too," Sabine said.

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!

"He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle."

Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.

The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.

It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith

I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

Life was a storm to wander through.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!