Poet Quote by Gary D. Schmidt Download Open image “Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?” — Gary D. Schmidt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry Shut up Want
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems. — Pattiann Rogers 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
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and expresses it is shutting people down. It's funny to see that expressed, and then to go back and read poetic statements by the great poets of the past: they are full of a passionate conviction! It is clearly… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share
When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?" And I suddenly realized that, well, I… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to. — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.” — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all.… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it. — Gary D. Schmidt 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
