Inspirational Quote by R. S. Thomas

I haven't had an orthodox career.

— Sally Field

“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of choices. There…

— Angela Doll Carlson

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work…

— Seamus Heaney

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to…

— Mayim Bialik

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

— Sonia Johnson

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have…

— Adrienne Rich

[Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them.

— Pope Francis

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but…

— Sally Field

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

“The reason my husband and I became Orthodox was that our mainline denomination was energetically revising its theology; church leaders were teaching that Jesus…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality…

— Ben Lerner

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

— Marina Tsvetaeva