Marguerite Young Quotes

• When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

  Marguerite Young

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don’t want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don’t even know.

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• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

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• The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

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  Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

   

  Marguerite Young

• Life has no beginning, middle or end.

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• Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

  Marguerite Young

• If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don’t blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

  Marguerite Young

• If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

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• If you don’t have obsessions, don’t write. my characters are obsessed.

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• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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• I’ve been willing to go for years without publishing. That’s been my career.

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• I’m quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

  Marguerite Young

• I’m as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I’m much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

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• I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

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• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

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• I would never write realistic prose. I don’t like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

  Marguerite Young

• I think there is a rage against women. I’ve come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

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• I think most people don’t like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don’t want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

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• I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

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Marguerite Young (31)

Birth:	28th August, 1908
Death:	17th November, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biographer, Novelist, Poet, Professor

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