Poet Quote by Janet Frame Download Open image “They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.” — Janet Frame ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry Teachers Thinking
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the bays, and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“A certain pleasure was added to Grace’s relief at establishing herself as a migratory bird. She found that she understood the characters in her… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are the sole… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty… — Janet Frame 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
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
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
