Quotes by Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx

… there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

Heart

Maids

Men

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Coins

Fall

May

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

Done

Handle

And I think that’s important, to know how the water’s gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Adversity

Thinking

Water

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

May

Misery

Pain

But the only rhyme he could summon for ‘out’ was ‘sauerkraut,’ which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.

Brain

Let It Go

Writing

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Crafts

Flames

Metamorphosis

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. “I’m coming back some day,” they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

Broken

Fit

Heart

For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat’s blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

Fire

Ocean

Pain

I didn’t have a chance to buy you anything,” she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn’t matter that he’d bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.

Eggs

Giving

Hands

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Atmosphere

Balance

Brain

Broken

Character

Coins

Cowboy

Crafts

Darkness

Dies

Differences

Done

Dying

Easier

Eggs

Eye

Fall

Feelings

Fire

Fit

Flames

Giving

Godly

Growing Up

Hair

Handle

Hands

Heart

House

Humble

Hustle

Ifs

Insightful

Landscape

Laughing

Let It Go

Light

Losing Someone

Maids

May

Men

Metamorphosis

Misery

Movie

Nephew

Night

Ocean

Ordinary

Pain

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Quotes by Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx

… there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

And I think that’s important, to know how the water’s gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

But the only rhyme he could summon for ‘out’ was ‘sauerkraut,’ which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. “I’m coming back some day,” they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

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