Diane Ackerman Quotes

Diane Ackerman (12)

Birth:	7th October, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Naturalist, Poet

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Births

• 1950 - Ann Wilson
• 1956 - Adam Arkin
• 1904 - Lester Cole
• 1861 - Jose Rizal
• 1948 - Phylicia Rashad

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• 1939 - Grace Abbott
• 1937 - J. M. Barrie
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• 1867 - Henry Dodge
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• An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire…permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can’t be reached in any other way.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Admit, Agree

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Childhood, Memorable

• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Secrets, Mirror

• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Lies, Will, Mystery

• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Moods, Poetry, Poets, Language

• We live on the leash of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Wonderful
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  I don’t want to get the end of my life and find that i lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Find, Lived

• Success produces success, just as money produces money.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Money, Success

  Tags in Successful, Produces

• Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

  Diane Ackerman

  Tags in Seems, Essential

• I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Tags in Self-Reliance