Apprenticeship Quote by Helen Dunmore Download Open image “Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.” — Helen Dunmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apprenticeship Language Poet Poetry Poets Poets Tough Tough Tough Apprenticeship Use Use Words Words
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.” — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
I was in the U.K. and Germany and went to Volkswagen and learned about their apprenticeship model - young people become paid apprentices in… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Every day should be Labor Day. We have to fight for the basic proposition that apprenticeship is a wonderful ticket to the middle class.… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect -… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image