Poetry Quote by Michael P. Naughton Download Open image ““Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”” — Michael P. Naughton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Reading Writing
“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my… — Harley King Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.” — Shawna Platt (Angel Shadow Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like the sound of chainsaws over morning coffee.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out… — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse of musicians… — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris 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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke 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
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
