Alice Fulton Quotes

Anguish is the universal language.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.