Quote

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Grace Paley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
Activist
Teacher
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
English
Takes
Night
Writing
Thinking
Translate
Poem

More quotes by Grace Paley

Image
A joke is necessary at this time.
Grace Paley
Image
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.
Grace Paley
Image
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.
Grace Paley
Image
I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
Grace Paley
Image
We write about what we don't know about what we know.
Grace Paley
Image
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley
Image
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
Grace Paley
Image
Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
Grace Paley
Image
The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
Grace Paley
Image
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
Grace Paley
Image
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Grace Paley
Image
Art's too long and life's too short.
Grace Paley
Image
Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
Grace Paley
Image
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
Image
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
Grace Paley
Image
What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
Grace Paley
Image
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
Grace Paley
Image
When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
Grace Paley
Image
If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.
Grace Paley
Image
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
Grace Paley