Aged Quote by Rita Dove Download Open image “I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.” — Rita Dove ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aged Aged Travel Certainly I think Poem Poetry Think Think Certainly Thinking Travel Travel the world World World Write Write Write Poem Writing You
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? — Barry Cryer Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there. — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
