Father Quote by Frederick Reiken Download Open image ““We loved our father for the poet he'd become.”” — Frederick Reiken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Parenting Poetry
“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.” — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of… — Alysia Abbott Copy Share Image
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller Copy Share Image
“I loved my father. Most people did. He did try his best. He did provide for his family. He taught me many things and… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.” — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
“All of us are part of a big story. It is a story that is much bigger than we know. Do not confuse the… — Frederick Reiken Copy Share Image
“In a world that was created by God's words, words are not symbols. They are things. You call a demon, you make a demon.… — Frederick Reiken Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
