Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West -
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
C. K. Williams -
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz -
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
Paris Hilton -
Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
Damian Lewis -
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown -
I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
Gary Lineker -
I'd do anything to help veterans.
Tammy Duckworth -
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth -
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
Omari Hardwick -
Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
Cam Newton
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle -
There is no free market for oil.
T. Boone Pickens -
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.
Amy Bloom -
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
T. S. Eliot -
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
Laurie Anderson -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko