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 -
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 -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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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 -
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
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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 -
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.
Gaston Bachelard
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.
Sigmund Freud -
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
Saint Ignatius -
I think that because Connecticut represents national champions, people should not get confused about what Connecticut is. Connecticut is a national power. They have been defending national champions. What makes Connecticut great is because they represent such greatness and accomplishment. So (a win) would say a lot.
C. Vivian Stringer -
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