Poet Quote by Linda Wagner-Martin Download Open image ““She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head”” — Linda Wagner-Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Come Think Poet Poet Song Poetry Song Maker Think Poet
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.” — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to… — PG Wodehouse Copy Share Image
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“finding their alter ego in each other — rebellious and isolated, strong and erotic and gifted.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.” Depressing” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I need someone real, who will be right for me now, here, and soon. Until then I’m lost. I think I am mad at… — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I loved before I met him, a large, hulking, healthy Adam ... with a voice like the thunder of God — a singer, story-teller,… — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles… — Linda Wagner-Martin 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
“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into… — Gu Cheng 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
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz 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
