Believe Quote by Alice Oswald Download Open image “I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.” — Alice Oswald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Believe Poet Ears Except I believe I believe the Lens Poem Poem Lens Poet Poet Shouldn Poetry Shouldn Poem
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes… — Plato Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his… — Plato Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
