I have read this a million times, well, almost a million times. I never took
it to heart thou. Some people can get inspiration from other artists quotes,
and like to create with their advice on the 'how to's", and there is nothing
wrong with that at all. It has nothing to do with anything about my views,
I've just never been a poet who listens, I guess. But I love to read them,
and to apply them to every day life.
a few quotes i love at the moment:
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its
own shame.
Oscar Wilde
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was
once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Lazarus Long
Time Enough for Love
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
Kipper
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of
his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
Groucho Marx
When you want to walk in the path of your hero, first remember that not all
great men had great lives, and the path you are following will be a rocky
journey.
Engel
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world.
There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of
different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue
of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support
their own existence.
Frank Zappa
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not
become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes
into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When I walk on the street counting my steps, magic keeps silent and reality
stalks me.
William Markiewicz
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dialogue relating to poetry and poetics wrote:
How and Why To Write Poetry: advice from those who know
1) Today dear friends I will sing beautifully and make you happy.
-- Sappho
2) The objects the imitator represents are actions.
-- Aristotle
3) A big book is a big bore.
-- Callimachus
4) Don't pay any attention to book prizes! Never. To none. Not
even the Nobel. They are a snare. -- Vincent Miller
5) Literature is language charged with meaning.
-- Ezra Pound
6) A man can learn more about poetry by really knowing and
examining a few of the best poems than by meandering about among
a great many. -- Ezra Pound
7) Miles Davis (after a gig): Man, why do you play so long?
John Coltrane: I had to play that long, to get it all in.
8) True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
-- Pope
9) Silence can be complex too,
but you do not get far
with silence.
-- William Carlos Williams
10) Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to
keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays
into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to
act.
-- A. E. Housman
11) For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
-- T. S. Eliot
12) No data without experiment.
-- Sophocles, tr. Ezra Pound
13) Say what you will in two
Words and get through.
Long, frilly
Palaver is silly.
-- Marie-Francoise-Catherine de
Beauveau, tr. Ezra Pound
14) Interviewer: Doesn't it embarrass you to see Bobby trying to
learn how to play slide on stage? Jerry Garcia: Um, yeah.
But the point is, it doesn't embarrass him.
15) Take this, this Psalm, from me, burst from my hand in a day ...
-- Allen Ginsberg
16) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World.
-- Shelley
17) It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
-- William Carlos Williams
18) For years on years I have struggled with ink and hammer, O my
tortured heart, to make you an embroidery of fire and gold, an
orangetree hyancinth, a blossoming quince to console you ...
-- Nikos Gatsos
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I was put on this earth to accomplish a certian number of things. Right now
I'm so far behind I'll never die.
Calvin & Hobbes
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