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Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor. Judith Butler
Theatre Poet Important Ram Philosophers Small Identifying Israel Existence Movement Oz Including Professor
I see myself as a songwriter and a poet. Julia Holter
Myself Poet See Songwriter
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. June Jordan
Music Time Myself Me Writing Language Poet Important Seven Extremely Obvious Became By The Time
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. Justin Townes Earle
Teacher Me Creative Writing School Poet Lost Think Enter Kind Some Only Poetry Had Written Idea Liked Always Being While Used Who Creative Writing Ever Competitions
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Karl Jaspers
Me Poet Become Philosopher Seemed Foolish Decide
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. Karl Shapiro
God Good Poet Those Possibility Tries Never He Within Sticks Real His Hands Human Hold Loves Race Realm Human Race
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend. Keith Gessen
Poet Fall Young Girlfriend Joseph Stole Soviet Republics Then Union Socialist
I'd kill to be a poet. Ken Bruen
Poet
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. Ken Kesey
Time Poet First Warrior Tremendous Allen He Time Goes By Goes Second
The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving. Kevin Young
Myself Me Poet Lost Saving Willed Collector Recovery Suppose Know Been Curator Going Often Reason Even Found Now Keeps Needed Save
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Lascelles Abercrombie
Best Man Determination Poet Different Kinds Several Out Would Kinds Poem Poetry He Like Different Decide Epic Choose Conscious Set
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. Laura Riding
Truth Art Problem Poet Solve Solved Seem Poem Only Poetry Mere Making
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. Laurence Olivier
God Me People Better Remember Poet Think Diligent Shakespeare Remember Me Like Than Anything Expert Workman
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. Lee Strasberg
Great Poet Feeling Independent Delivered Prose Supreme Accent Because Does Verse Essence Which Reside Actor Great Actor
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. Leslie Fiedler
Poet Like Know Read Anybody Middle Wanting Centuries Century Next Should
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. Leslie Fiedler
Good Will Poet Despite Those Bad Admire Seems Poems Fact He Know Least Being Last
I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff. Lil Dicky
Remember Poet Alexander Back Everyone Way Rap Easy Easy Way Boring Russian Stuff Because Doing Report Get Grade Just Then Fifth Turning
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. Linton Kwesi Johnson
Anger Defiance Poet Apprenticeship Back Our Those Tried Spirit Poetic Voice Days Also Idiom Began Early Resistance Early Days
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. Lorde
Mom Poet Background Musically Both Poetry Had Come Read Always Lot Short Different Fiction Influences
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. Lotte Lehmann
Music Song World Path Poet Over His Shining Which Travels Bring
A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms. Louis MacNeice
Poet Guess Collaborating Criticisms He Mass Make Always His Heard Itself Cannot Public Should Requirements
The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself. Louis MacNeice
Speak Poet Difficult Others Statements Oneself Both Primarily Spokesman Himself Without Making Behalf Speaking
The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life. Louis MacNeice
Life Music Day Together Every Day Words Poet Painting Every Other Everyone Dancing Something Poetry Exception Puts Without Practise Does His Arts Which Even Specialist Differs
A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made. Luis Bunuel
Made Poet Born Like
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. Lytton Strachey
Great Poet Become Extraordinary Consider Besides More Writer He Also Powers Obvious Still Being Psychologist
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. Mahmoud Darwish
Poet Finally Says Poetry He Importance How Measured
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