Factions Quote by Thom Gunn Download Open image “We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.” — Thom Gunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Factions Poetry Reading
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.” — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to… — Muriel Fox Copy Share Image
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
American Green Berets have been on the ground reaching out to some of the factions there. But don't confuse them with combat troops. So… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
