Browsing Topic Best Trapeze Artists Quotes

You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.

There were times in my career … when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word.

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it’s normal. It’s all I’ve ever known.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.