Jimmy Carter Quotes

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

Jimmy Carter

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

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Perfect
  • Interest
  • Self-Expression

• 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

• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Why
  • Question
  • Written

• 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

• 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

• As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

  

  John Milton
  • Music
  • Language
  • Poem

• 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

• Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Life
  • Guitar
  • Self-Expression

• People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • People
  • Drugs
  • Associate

• I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Helping

• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Church
  • Silent
  • Poem

• Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

  

  Arnold Adoff
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Poem

• One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Silent
  • Poem
  • Concept

• Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Life
  • Music

• Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Failure

• It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Accountable

• When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Poem
  • Self-Expression
  • Self-analysis