Community Quote by Joan Larkin Download Open image “Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.” — Joan Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Creativity Dead Imaginative Imaginative Imaginative Community Life Poet Poet Living Poetry
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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