Age Quote by William A. Henry III Download Open image “A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.” — William A. Henry III ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Longing Middle Middle ages Poet Poetry Sexuality
To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is… — Rodney Compton Copy Share Image
“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough...The vital thing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
