Dean Young Quotes

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

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• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • First
  • Odd
  • Exceptions

• The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Never
  • Odd
  • Island

• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • May
  • Effort

• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  

  Allen Tate
  • May
  • History
  • Alone

• We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Poem
  • Says
  • Restate

• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Done
  • Brain
  • Tears

• Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Up
  • Pressure
  • Poem

• Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Opinion
  • Wine
  • Odd

• Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Death
  • Odd

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wisdom
  • Delight
  • Poem

• A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poem
  • Throat
  • Lump

• If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Think
  • Change
  • Woman

• Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dreams
  • Creatures
  • Poem

• And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Poem
  • Celebrated
  • Conducting

• Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.

  

  William Finnegan
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Conflict

• ...a good poem contains both meaning and music.

  

  Eve Merriam
  • Music
  • Meaning
  • Poem

• One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Lost

• I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

  

  Jack Roy
  • World
  • Top
  • Hemorrhoids

• I didn’t realize it then, you know, but knowing what I know now, he must have been abused physically.” It makes my skin hurt to think of it, of his small gentle self, so heartbreakingly beautiful, being punched or cut or burned.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Hurt
  • Self
  • Realize

• A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

  

  Dean Young
  • Poem
  • Odd
  • Platypus