Poet Quote by Deborah Levy Download Open image “She was not a poet. She was a poem.” — Deborah Levy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. — Billy Cannon 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
“We're kissing in the rain.' Her voice was hard and soft at the same time. Like the velvet armchairs. Like the black rain inked… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense. — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at. Oh good my depression is very well… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“Next year he would suggest they hire a chalet on the edge of an icy fjord in Norway, as far away from the Jacobs… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made… — Deborah Levy 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
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
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
