How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? -Joyce Carol Oates

 

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?


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This quote is just one of 12 total Joyce Carol Oates quotes in our collection. Joyce Carol Oates is known for saying 'How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?' as well as some of the following quotes.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Joyce Carol Oates

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable.

Joyce Carol Oates

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

Joyce Carol Oates

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates