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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets. Garth Risk Hallberg
Great You Thought Poet Live Poets Had New Know Always Go Walked York Going New York Where Whitman Lived Streets
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space. Gene Cernan
Best You Space Will Whatever See Poets Take Takes Journalists Get Artists Teachers Certainly
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. George Grosz
Business Genius Personality Profit Promote Only Poets Individuality Greater Cult Itself Personage Which Really Painters
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. George Murray
You Reality Stars Thinking Other Poets No-One Well Reads Rock Rock Stars Hits Going Romantic Realize Then Start
I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At that time, albums didn't have explicit stickers on them, so some of the songs had profanity on them, and I was moved by that. I would listen to those songs, to the flow, and I'd balance it back and forth with the nursery stuff I had. Gza
Music Time Me Balance Nursery Back Those Would Some Poets Had Songs Stuff House She Go Aunt Listen Moved Them Explicit Forth Profanity Play Play Music Album Flow Last Albums
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. Harry Chapin
Love Eyes Go Away Say Something More Poets She Knows Go Offer Than Away Her
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. Helen Dunmore
Men Seemed Uncertain Poets Knew Sure Although Am Were Themselves Then Really Whom
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. Helen Dunmore
Words Tough Apprenticeship Poets Through Go Very Use
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunshine Old Too Ghosts Visited Haunted Poets Crowned Hill House Gloom Graces Full Many Muses
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. Herbert Read
Quality Culture Worth Wealth Power Military Philosophers Valued Civilization Poets Individuals Terms Material Material Wealth Representative Artists Achievements Military Power
I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false. Hilton Als
Envy Poets True Nobody Because False Them Ask Ever
Poets wish to profit or to please. Horace
Wish Profit Please Poets
Poets are not meant to be in competition. Howard Jacobson
Competition Poets Meant Meant To Be
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body. Hugh Laurie
Music Mind Think Say Entire Somehow Seems Poets Greatest Get Quite Human Cannot Places Infuse Gonna Body Even Actually
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. Ian Mcewan
Myself You Think Poets Put Heard Scottish Really English Novelist Novelists British
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. Ice Cube
Me Dancers Rappers Given Poets Performance Most Times Often Artists Interesting Them
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism. Iggy Pop
Crazy Reading About Poets Through Had Obsessed Prism Came Been Subjects View Lives Early University
I know who the great poets are. Jack Kerouac
Great Poets Know Who
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. Jack Prelutsky
Writing Own Other My Own Voice Poets Until Read Began Any Children Influenced Want Them Found Now
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Jack Prelutsky
Thomas Diverse Poe Poets Edgar Been Influenced Dylan Dylan Thomas Lewis
If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in 'Dead Poets Society.' Jake Johnson
Teacher Society Type Williams Would Poets Could Like Dead Robin Robin Williams Freshman Were Teach English
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. James Broughton
World Few Promising Would-Be Poetry Poets Real Workshop University
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. James Broughton
Born Rarest Poets Real Professors
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. James Broughton
People Try Ought Possessed Admire Someone Poets Like Most Hard Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. James Dickey
Honor Live Think Else Claim Kind More Poetry Poets Most Because Does Dubious Enables Reducing Than Craft Done Anybody Anybody Else Mean Thing Harm
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton
Today Art Freedom Age First Sense Other Our Characteristics Vanity Structure Poets Developing Between French Idiom Verbal Line Hand Efforts Any Form Rhythm Forms Choice Fundamental
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