Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Alice Fulton.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English Emerita at Cornell University. Her awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Award, and Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, as well as the MacArthur Fellowship.
While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what
looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.
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".
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
Anguish is the universal language.
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.