Temperament Quote by Philip Levine Download Open image “My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.” — Philip Levine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Temperament
Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it… — Zoe McKey Copy Share Image
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.” — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“From they sack and they belly opened And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth They feed they Lion and he comes.” — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“ Our Valley We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August when the worst heat seems to rise from the… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench. — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead. — David Samuels Copy Share Image
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
You have to find what your temperament is like and live around it. I find I work really well off the top of my… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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