When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
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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 'When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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.
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.
This quote is just one of 12 total Joyce Carol Oates quotes in our collection. Joyce Carol Oates is known for saying 'When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.' as well as some of the following quotes.