Arbiter Quote by Linton Kwesi Johnson Download Open image “I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,” — Linton Kwesi Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arbiter British Poetic Taste Validation
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it,… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon. — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense. — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs. — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
