Could have been Quote by Nanao Sakaki Download Open image “If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.” — Nanao Sakaki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Could have been Education Greater Has beens Ifs Poet Poetry
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
If you have time to chatter,Read books.If you have time to read,Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.If you have time to walk,Sing songs and… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
“In the morning After taking cold shower —-what a mistake—- I look at the mirror. There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white beard, wrinkled… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my TV and movie stuff, I would be really critical of myself, but I've gotten better and better. There's always… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
