Garrison Keillor
American writer and humorist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The Betterment of Man is the worst motive for writing. It's the worst. Better to write out of sheer cussedness and heave a cherry bomb into the ladies' latrine and make them jump out of their camisoles than climb into the pulpit and pontificate about the meaning of it all.
—Garrison Keillor, American writer and humorist, Love Me, 2003
Posted on April 22, 2004 at 9:24 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Poems ... make us love this gaudy, mother-scented, mud-bedaubed language of ours. A cunning, low tongue, English, with its rich vocabulary of slander and concupiscence and sport, its fine Latin overlay and French bric-a-brac, and when someone speaks poetry in it, it stirs our little monolingual hearts.
—Garrison Keillor, American writer and humorist, Good Poems, 2002
Posted on April 18, 2000 at 10:08 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The love of language is the love of truth, and this brings one into conflict with authority, since power employs deceit and is so fond of it — Rexroth said: "The accepted official version of anything is most likely false ... all authority is based on fraud" — but the love of language is a fundamental connection to our fellows and is a basis of true civility.
—Garrison Keillor, American writer and humorist, Good Poems, 2002
Posted on March 27, 2000 at 7:44 PM
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