Poetry Quote by Jaime Gil de Biedma Download Open image ““I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”” — Jaime Gil de Biedma ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
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“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
“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.” — Ocean Crisstopher Poet Copy Share Image
“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris 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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke 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
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
