Thomas Gold Appleton Quotes

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.

My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

Part of North Jersey life is that everyone is obsessed with being tough all the time.

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'

I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.

How can you live in the Northeast?

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man