Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
advice poet
The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be the visual imagination, bringing before his eyes a succession of images which he never summoned, and of which some (it is only too likely) will be ugly or pitiful.
artist poet
All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)
travel glory hopes artist poet traveling move-on scientist
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.
growing-up artist poet
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles
innocence childhood poet child
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
children poet london adult peter-pan
.. Writers, like priests, should have compassion.. And a sensitivity to pain..
compassion writer poet priest
.. For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?
self-discovery fear poet
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
heart poet
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.
liberty imagination thought poet
A Writer is the only person who can spawn verse out of emptiness
inspirational-quotes writer poet motivational-quotes
And on the pedestal these words appear?'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings?Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'?Nothing beside remains. Round the decay?Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare?The lone and level sands stretch far away.
epic warning poet irony egypt hubris
In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.
literature writing-life writer poet r-m-engelhardt
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
poem poet
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary
society boys poet poets day ordinary john
Le Poëte est semblable au prince des nuéesQui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.
poet poets
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
poet poets disgust
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
shakespeare poet homer
Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little child - Some think me middling, others silly, other foolish - every one thinks he sees my weak side against my will; when in thruth it is with my will - I am content to be thought all this because I have in my own breast so graet a resource. This is one great reason why they like me so; because they can all show to advantage in a room, and eclipese from a certain tact one who is reckoned to be a good Poet - I hope I am not here playing tricks 'to make the angels weep': I think not: for I have not the least contempt for my species; and though it may sound paradoxical: my greatest elevations of Soul leave me every time more humbled - Enough of this - though in your Love for me you will not think it enough.
solitude poet english romanticism sublime
Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.
soul poet
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
deeds words poet
There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.
author writer poet
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.
writer poet
I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
author poet sufi
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