Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West -
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
C. K. Williams -
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz -
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
Paris Hilton -
Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
Damian Lewis -
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown -
I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
Gary Lineker -
I'd do anything to help veterans.
Tammy Duckworth -
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth -
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
Omari Hardwick -
Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
Cam Newton
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
T. S. Eliot -
You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
Vin Diesel -
My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.
Isabel Gillies -
I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.
Orhan Pamuk -
I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.
Jane Seymour -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko