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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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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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
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You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial problem with calling people by their real names.
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How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
