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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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 -
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Magic Johnson -
One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.
Blaise Pascal -
Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
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