Editing Quote by James Tate Download Open image “Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.” — James Tate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Great poetry Needs Poetry Poetry is Poetry reading Reading poetry
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life. — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.” — James Tate Copy Share Image
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t even picture Mavis’s face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her forehead, but… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“They didn't have much trouble teaching the ape to write poems: first they strapped him into a chair, then tied the pencil around his… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“I was outside St. Cecelia's Rectory smoking a cigarette when a goat appeared beside me. It was mostly black and white, with a little… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“for my father, 1922-1944 Your face did not rot like the others--the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His face is corn- mush:… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“Everybody who was anybody seemed to be going to a meeting, the glowworm, who was a solipsist, the lemur who was not.” — James Tate Copy Share Image
The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit. — James Tate Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
