James Humphrey Poet—Inspiring Quotes

Quotes

Inspiring, reflecting and challenging his own views about writing, art and life, Humphrey kept quotes from people he admired. Often these were posted around his writing desk. Follow the links below.

Woody Allen
Joan Baez
Ted Berrigan
Charles Bukowski
John Cage
Maria Callas
Charlie Chaplin
John Cheever
Samuel Clemens
Ty Cobb
Emily Dickenson
Ecclesiastes
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Federico Fellini
Robert Frost
Andrew Glaze
Ruth Gordon
Sydney Harris
Katharine Hepburn
Herman Hesse
Edwin Honig
Norma Humphrey
Janis Joplin
John Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Burt Lancaster
Jean Larson
Harper Lee

Peggy Lee
John Lennon
Doris Lessing
Bernard Malamud
Carson McCullers
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Georgia O’Keeffe
Satchel Paige
Kenneth Patchen
Saint Paul
Pablo Picasso
Sylvia Plath
Ranier Maria Rilke
Theodore Roosevelt
William Saroyan
Albert Schweitzer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
David Smith
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Ringo Starr
Taki183
Mother Teresa
James Thurber
Kurt Vonnegut
Mae West
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
Thomas Wolfe
Virginia Woolf