"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."

Want, Writing

41

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."

Exlpore more Want quotes

"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Want,

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Want,

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Want,

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Want,

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Want,

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Want,

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Want,

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Want,

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Want,

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Want,

Explore more quotes by Mark Strand

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

Poems

"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."

Poetry

"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

Life

"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

Poetry

"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."

Poetry

"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."

Poetry

"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."

Poetry

41

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Want quotes

"If you want to be happy, be."

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Explore more quotes by Mark Strand

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."

"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."

"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."

"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."

"The future is always beginning now."

"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."

"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."