“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.” IfsDoeHas BeensMomentsSeemsTogetherSoundHoursLinesBreakSweetHard WorkStonesHarderBonesKitchenWork HarderNoisyPavementMarrowIdlers Book:Later Poems Source: Later Poems
“Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.” DifferentSoundHotSmellNostalgiaKitchenPieFrozenCoolingThawing Book:A Window Over the Sink Source: A Window Over the Sink
“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.” WayMotherSoundMy OwnPathGrewFindingsGrew UpDaughterFilledSmokeMy WayKitchenVegetablesRecipesImpatienceVacuumsRecollectionMother DaughterTinOvensFrying Author:Patricia J. Williams
“When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.” WayWritingTryingLittlesDifferentEndsUsedNextSoundInnocentKitchenThrowingNext TimeSteersSound And MusicKitchen SinksDifferent Music Author:Steve "Lips" Kudlow