Bombs Quote by Gregory Corso Download Open image “Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!” — Gregory Corso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bombs Dictator Poet Poetry Throwing
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes… — Martxedn Espada Copy Share Image
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking We never saw him before! He… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Everybody I've ever met was destroyed by a member of the opposite sex early on and that damage you took into every relationship after… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach… — Jim Furyk Copy Share Image
