Coney island Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image “I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coney Coney island Laureate Coney Love Poet Poet Laureate Poetry
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in 'Dead Poets… — Jake Johnson Copy Share Image
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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
I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“One Trump tenant disturbed by the de facto segregation was the Oklahoman Woodrow Wilson Guthrie—or Woody, as the folksinger was known. He had moved… — Michael Kranish Copy Share Image
“Wayne LaPierre feverishly explained that all Americans must be armed. “After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as… — Michael Waldman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Day an' night they set in a room with a checker-board on th' end iv a flour bar'l, an' study problems iv th' navy.… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Then it's not,' says I, 'and we're after having a pleasant evening, Miss Flynn. Have ye seen the sights of this new Coney Island,… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now,… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
