Allen Tate Quotes
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Quotes to Explore
-
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
-
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
-
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
-
I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
-
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
-
My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
-
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
-
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
-
Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
-
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
-
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
-
Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
-
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
-
It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
-
I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
-
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
-
You never know what can happen in football. It's football.
-
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
-
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
-
A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so young.
-
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a way of opening up the part of the brain that makes poems. If I'm successful in this part of the process I'm often not. If my mind gets too lazy it will linger in familiar boring territory, it's like my mind can stroke the physical world.
-
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
-
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
-
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
