Being-a-writer Quote by Erna Grcic Download Open image ““Don’t be a poet, my darling The taxidermist for ideas and lost dreams”” — Erna Grcic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being-a-writer Dreams Lost dreams Poet Poetry Poetry quotes Poetry-books Poetry-love Poetry-quotations Poets-and-poetry Poets-on-poetry Poets-on-writing
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.” — Juliano Alves Copy Share Image
“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.” — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals, plants, chimeras, stars, and minerals were in a pre-established harmony, a dream that is forgotten because it must be forgotten, and is sought desperately, and only sporadically does one find its tragic fragments in the warmth of a… — Aleksander Wat Copy Share
“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work,… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
