Category Archives: Quotations

Things people said.

“Burning the Brush Pile”

Posted on April 24, 2018 by JMN

I find among my keepings a poem by Galway Kinnell published in the New Yorker June 19, 2006. Its title is “Burning the Brush Pile.” Tending the pile, the speaker discovers a small, half-burnt snake still alive: “It stopped where … Continue reading →

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“For me, poetry proliferates…”

Posted on April 22, 2018 by JMN

“For me, poetry proliferates and flourishes in the intellect’s blind spot. But you have to have the intellect first; you can’t skip that step. I find intelligence to be most interesting when it’s tested — not when it’s challenged, but … Continue reading →

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“Painting is a lie that tells the truth” (Picasso)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by JMN

“As Amos Oz, the Israeli novelist, once put it, ‘Facts at times become the dire enemies of truth.’ Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ is a poor factual account of what happened in a Basque village on April 26, 1937, and a magnificent rendering … Continue reading →

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“Whoosh… Boom”

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

“We went and executed that against real targets with real missiles, and quite simply, we won. So from a practice standpoint, they saw it. So there’s a level of, in their hearts, it’s no longer, hey, trust us, this will … Continue reading →

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