Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright -
Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
Fat Joe -
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. Priestley -
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.
Cameron Crowe -
Genius sees the answer before the question.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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If…if I had his education, Kantaylis thought, surprised at the sudden intensity of the desire. If I could I’d study this business, read up on it, read all there is to be read about it.
Anton Myrer -
One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
Mitch Landrieu -
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.
Saint Augustine -
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
Gerard Manley Hopkins