Deep down Quote by Jaime Gil de Biedma Download Open image “I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.” — Jaime Gil de Biedma ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deep down Inspirational Love Poet Poetry Wanted
“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
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my… — Philip Levine Copy Share
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems didn't make sense to my teachers. They didn't rhyme. They were about the wind sounds, the planets' motions, never about who I was or how I felt. I didn't think I felt anything. I was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn 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
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“If we can’t wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
