Lump In The Throat Quotes

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.

Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.” – W. H. Auden
“A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.