Hard Quote by Cornelius Eady Download Open image “It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.” — Cornelius Eady ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hard Knows Poetry Sometimes Song Writing
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem of mine… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing. — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having the courage… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader… — Lydia Davis 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
Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I think you can get, as a player, stuck in the mindset of trying too hard to prove yourself. — Trinity Rodman Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
High school, going into my junior year, I kind of had the idea I was going to be the starting running back. I was a little smaller, so I decided to gain weight and try to get faster. I wasn't a fan of the weight room. I thought just the God-given talent would take you where you needed to go.… — Saquon Barkley Copy Share
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
