Robert Frost Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
Edie McClurg
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
Van Morrison
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
Valerie Plame
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
Barbara Sukowa
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
Ariana Grande
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What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
Asia Argento
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
W. S. Merwin
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
Virginia Woolf
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
Alexandre Dumas
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Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.
Russell M. Nelson
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
John Stuart Mill
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost