Poetry Quote by Angela Thirkell Download Open image “Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.” — Angela Thirkell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Years
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.” — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“Besides,’ he added, ‘Catriona Ellangowan is a charming woman. I nearly married her myself once, but she very rightly turned me down for Ellangowan… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“I never did take sugar in my tea, or in coffee,’ said the Vicar. ‘I have always disliked it. But I understood that by… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“Why a widow should raise an attractive or pathetic image in one’s mind, or at the worst something rather bold and dashing, while widower… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I know much… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“It need hardly be said that the qualities which filled Martin with the pangs of hero-worship were not altogether those which David’s parents would… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“To Mrs Belton’s relief the lights in the hall were now put out and the curtains drawn apart. As all amateur theatricals are exclusively… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line,… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
