Fear Quote by Babette Deutsch Download Open image “Who, except the poets, reads poetry?” — Babette Deutsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Poet Poetry
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it. — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
