Care Quote by Lucille Clifton Download Open image “To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.” — Lucille Clifton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Care Care Writing Good Poet Poet Poet Care Poetry Writing
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm… — Clive James Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
We all know what it feels like to love someone and care about them and want to protect them. — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about… — James Righton Copy Share Image
