Baby Quote by Martin Amis Download Open image “Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.” — Martin Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baby Middle Middle Night Middle of the night Night Night Struggling Poet Poetry Poets Babies Struggle Struggling
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“I looked down into my baby’s beautiful green eyes and ached inside. She looked up at me with wide-eyed innocence. I kissed her warm… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to be so comfortable handing my child off to a nanny without getting any of her information. As soon as she… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Baby, I love you. We argue about the stupidest shit then we turn around and laugh about it. I'm obsessed with you and you're… — Lindsay Copy Share Image
My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and… — Elliott Yamin Copy Share Image
