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.

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!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

W. H. Auden

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

W. H. Auden

Poetry makes nothing happen.

W. H. Auden

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Maria Shriver

I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or shouldn't say for one reason or the other, ... We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off they get sent to first ladies' dungeon, and you wouldn't want that to happen to me.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Jorge Julio

I don't know what happens on the mound. Nothing works right now.

Shai Agassi

I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.

Mick Jagger

I don't know - this is a long tour, I don't know what happens after this tour.

William Mullen

I don't know why, but it happens frequently.