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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As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
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Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world
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As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
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In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.
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How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
