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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The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
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I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
