William Shenstone Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I love having critics for breakfast.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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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.
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I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.
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I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!
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The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
