Anne Stevenson Quotes

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Anne Stevenson

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Hard

• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Like
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Care
  • Listening

• I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Rock

• If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Children
  • Love

• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Ambitious
  • Ninja

• The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Truth
  • Physics

• I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • You
  • Always
  • Timeless

• I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Think
  • Nature
  • Artist

• When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Done
  • Think
  • Wish

• Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Start

• I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Success
  • Failure

• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • City
  • Poetry

• Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

  

  Amartya Sen
  • People
  • World

• Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Heart
  • Needs
  • Flower

• The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Value
  • Attitude
  • Canvas

• Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Poetry
  • Criticism
  • Ignore