Ernesto Cardenal Quotes
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.Ernesto Cardenal
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
Kara Hayward -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift -
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff -
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
Floyd Skloot -
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
Joanne Rowling -
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter -
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot -
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Octavio Paz -
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Padma Lakshmi -
At least I can write.
R. L. Stine -
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot -
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White -
I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
Tate Donovan -
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
Calvin Trillin
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I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!
Jack Roy -
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Harrison Ford -
Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.
Taliesin -
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Dan Savage -
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
Ernesto Cardenal