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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God created us to thrive on encouragement from others
Willie Robertson
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...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
E. Lockhart
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns
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A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.
William Dean Howells
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost