Ancient Quote by Allison Joseph Download Open image “Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.” — Allison Joseph ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient art Art Poetry Poetry is Young Youth
I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
