“Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.” YearsUsedFindingsWoodsUsed To BeBrooks Author:Malcolm Cowley
“A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.” KnownTeamFindingsWoodsBroadsJumpingGrenadeSlumps Author:Mark Grace
“You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.” PeopleWantWritingKindDifferentUseRunningFindingsTraditionWoodsDifferent KindsBuilder Book:The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
“Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.” FeelsMeanDoeCertainEnergyGrowsCasesWiseFeetPlanetsPaperFindingsSummerResourcesStressMental HealthPlantCancerWoodsMedicalFeel GoodSmokePostsFuelRemarkableClothingsMarijuanaStoppingDieselSeizuresBiosRenewable ResourcesDiesel Fuel Author:Jesse Ventura
“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.” WellsTwoPlayFeelingsHeavenRolesBrokenFindingsTrainLegsWoodsEightShouldersBridgesFiftyVirginsNerdJohnsonBroken Leg Author:Junot Diaz
“I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look.” KnowsLooksMadeSeemsMy OwnKnow HowClearTreeFrontsFindingsSilentEdgesWoodsGrayYellowUrgentCautiousSlender Author:Maggie Stiefvater