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Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
— Wilferd Peterson
Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.
— Michael Wilbon
NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.Dangerous by Shannon Hale — Shannon Hale
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
— Susan Glaspell
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
— T. S. Eliot
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
— Jenny Holzer
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.
— Marco Pierre White
You can never have too much butter.
— Nora Ephron
Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.
— Steven Pinker
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
— T. S. Eliot
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
— Nicholson Baker
All good poems are victories over something.
— Stephen Dunn
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
If you are good, they say you are weak.
— Dejan Stojanovic
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
— Elizabeth Bishop
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only good poets cure us of an overindulgence in words. Only simple essential food cures us of gluttony.
— Hector Abad Faciolince
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
— Melissa Manchester
So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you - your instincts are ready to serve you.
— Bryant McGill
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
— James Laughlin
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free ...
— Madeleine L'Engle
The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.
— Flannery O'Connor
Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
— Steve Guttenberg
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
— Billy Collins
Oh, what company good poets are!
— Jose Marti
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
— Robert Giroux
I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.
— Evelyn Waugh
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.
— Dorothea Benton Frank
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.
— Nicholas Sparks
It's often your worst self that makes you shine best
— Thabiso Monkoe
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic