Billy Cannon Quotes
How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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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'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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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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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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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
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I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
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Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
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Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
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How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
