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List of Reynolds Price Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 19 inspiring quotes by Reynolds Price.

About Reynolds Price

  • Born: February 1, 1933
  • Died: January 20, 2011
  • Occupation: Poet
    • The older i've got the less i find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
    Reading Fiction
    I think we southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being southern.
    Thinking Southern Mystique
    I've met little meanness, wherever i went.
    Littles Mets Meanness
    As a child i thought it was very boring when i had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
    Mother Children Cities
    You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. so, i'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when i teach students, i try and persuade them of the same.
    Athletic Trying Matter
    The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is michelangelo, picasso, yeats.
    Art Children Funeral
    Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, i still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women
    Children Father Thinking
    Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. i wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
    Healing Writing World
    Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
    Civilization Cities Permanent Things
    From the age of six i wanted to be an artist. at that point i meant a painter, but it turned out what i really meant was i was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
    Artist Age World
    Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
    Heart Life Is Short World
    Many americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. but a born southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. they'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
    Hurt Heart Cells
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