Jane Austen Quotes
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson -
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
W. S. Merwin -
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai -
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
Manning Marable
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
Lord Dunsany -
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
Antonio Machado -
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
Antonio Machado
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The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.
Charles D'Ambrosio -
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
Ben Affleck -
We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there.
Andrew Stevenson -
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
Jane Austen