Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Sophie Hannah

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Anne Wright

He said, 'I can't teach someone how to write,' ... He just thought if you were a poet, you wrote poetry.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Daisy Ridley

I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

Umberto Eco

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

William Wycherley

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Sophie Hannah

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

Umberto Eco

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

William Wordsworth

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

William Wordsworth

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

Quentin Blake

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Marjorie Brody

I think when the student's ready, the teacher appears.

Brian Hall

We've been trying to teach our forwards to be more creative, more adventurous up top.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Rita Ora

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.