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Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single. Joanna Lumley
Good Woman Women People Engineer Men Poet Single Whatever Our Respected Say People Say Never Simultaneously Understand Been Women Are Very Different Skills Painter Many
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. Joanna Scott
Me Husband Poet Jim Books Critic Life-Changing Along Read Always Passing
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then. Joe Haldeman
Training Poet Military Every Think Would Fact Remained Had Written Combat Short Just In Fact Short Story Story Then Novel Military Training Now Now And Then Peacetime
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely. John Drinkwater
Best Experience Poet Way Says Possible Perfect He Felt Token Expression
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. John Drinkwater
Life Word Poet Perfect Selection He Makes His
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. John Keble
Mind Poet Fire Brother Contact
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful. John Leguizamo
Poet Daughter Every Out Someone Could She Go Loser His Bum Going Want Loves Successful Who Dad Her
All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do. John Trudell
Me Poet Writer Am Really Activist Actor Things
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard. John Trudell
Will Poet Beginning Society Our Voice Particular Because Tradition Heard Histories Oral
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. John Updike
Poet Walks Few Own Phrases Through Odd Line His Verse Letters Biography Two
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! Jonas Mekas
Cinema Care Poet States About Only Poetry Know Known Am dont Care Maverick Europe United United States Here Filmmaker
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it. Jonas Mekas
Me Confused Desperate Poet Duty Way Those Solidarity Eye Out Seeking Feel Around Felt Always Misused Antenna Happening Who
I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then. Jonathan Galassi
Work Together Book Slow Poet First Though Rather Had Mainly Italian Work Together Then Translations Published Nearly Starter Gather
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white. Jonathan Lethem
Politics Good You Black Black And White Poet White Wayne Giant John John Ford More John Wayne He Like Looks Learn Accept Ford His Film Actor Watch
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life Man Political Hero Will Poet Master Torrent Unruly Learned Learned Man His Order Fortress Meditate
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. Joseph Brodsky
World Language Poet Every Ought Guide At Least One Individual Through Know Yardstick Least Cover Then
Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet. Joseph Brodsky
Will Citizen Poet Once Russian Stop Being
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. Joseph Brodsky
Journey Poet On The Contrary Point Doctrine Metaphysical Arrival Contrary Departure
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' Joseph Brodsky
Life Death Poet Some More Somewhat Always Concrete Sounds Odd Than Reason Expression
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality. Joseph Brodsky
Free Fears Poet Worse Though No Guarantee Seems Shameful Free Verse He Unthinkable Contemporary Him Verse Banal Banality Than American Just Anything Rhymes Against Use Uses Therefore Guarantee
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States. Joseph Brodsky
You Citizen Poet Think States Russian Combination Essayist Happiest English United United States
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. Joseph Brodsky
Losing Poet Citizenship Russian Although Am Cease Soviet
There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet. Joseph Brodsky
Poet Nothing Analytical Synthetic About Russian Write Instance Device Than English Apply Phenomenon
I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other. Joy Harjo
People Poet Looking Other Else Everyone Everyone Else Musician Member Dreamer Some Like Sort Am Answers
Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices. Juan Felipe Herrera
Made Poet First Everyone States Latino Laureate Poet Laureate Voice Voices Also Am Yes United United States Here
If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher. Juan Felipe Herrera
Teacher Poet Guess Would One Thing Would-Be Only Performer Well Known Then Thing
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