There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and…

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any…

— Sammy Hagar

Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is…

— Henry Van Dyke

With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and…

— Jeremy Paxman

Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish,…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As an actor, when you're actually trying to embody what it would be like to just know that everyone's at your beck and call,…

— Linus Roache

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your…

— Mahatma Gandhi

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I…

— William Faulkner

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird fluttering in…

— Victoria Alexander

"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world…

— Harriet Monroe

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

— Vicki Lewis Thompson

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up…

— William Stafford