"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."

People, Poems, Writing

2

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."

Michael McKean, American Actor

People, Self, World

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

Oscar Levant, American Composer

People, Blame, Envy

"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

People, Flowers, Now, Spring

"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."

Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan Celebrity

People, Community

"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

People, Giving

"Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start."

Tim Johnson, American Politician

People, Commitment, Country, Giving

"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."

Edward Burnett Tylor, English Scientist

People, Absence, Children, Statistics

"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."

Linda McCartney, American Photographer

People, Cooking, Day

"Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea."

Anthony Perkins, American Actor

People, Idea, Gay, Right

"People read me but they don't subscribe."

Jay London, American Comedian

People,

Explore more quotes by Mark Strand

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

Poetry

"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."

Self-Awareness

"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."

Poetry

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

Poetry

"I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes."

Poetry

"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."

Life

2

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more People quotes

"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."

"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."

"Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start."

"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."

"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."

"Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea."

"People read me but they don't subscribe."

Explore more quotes by Mark Strand

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

"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."

"It's very hard to write humor."

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

"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."

"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."

"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."

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

"I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes."

"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."