James Schuyler Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey -
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda -
Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
Gayle Forman
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
Hannah Ware -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
Nancy Lublin -
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume -
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Kate Thompson -
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Octavio Paz -
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney -
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown -
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe -
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 -
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
Gary Shteyngart
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I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
Laura Bush -
If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.
Margaret Turnbull -
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
Vanity -
I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.
Leighton Meester -
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler