Greatness Quote by Ogden Nash Download Open image “I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.” — Ogden Nash ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greatness Inspirational Love Poet Poetry
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
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco 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
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious that gold.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves… — Stanwood Cobb Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of… — John A. Passaro Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
