Top 1200 Writers And Poets Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But one thing that he did have when it came to his artistry , is that voice. At least Eazy-E admitted he had ghost writers & people that wrote for him. Some of today's super star rappers will not admit they have ghost writers. Eazy-E always kept it 1000.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three or four hours, and they'd take it back and it would be transcribed, and it would be given to the writers, those many writers you see on all those shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, etc. And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and that to express truth today you need to work in different forms, to write books where it's perhaps not clear what's fiction and what's memoir. I have nothing against those books and love many of them very much. But we have enough space for everyone, traditional realists and hybrid writers, and experimental writers all.

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there is a tradition of writers being quite engaged. Particularly in the Arab world you have had very, very strong traditions of literature and poetry and most of the writers have been deeply committed to the cause of the Arab nation.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.