Quotes about thin
thinking america risk
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry. Edward Hirsch
thinking lyric-poetry ideas
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.
thinking agony midlife
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.
thinking firsts noble
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.
thinking long poet
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.
thinking trying lasts
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.
thinking grandpa grandfather
Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.
thinking television wells
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.
thinking connections needs
I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.
thinking use fiction
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.
thinking two together
But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
thinking tempest young
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.
thinking giving greek
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether. Edmond Halley
thinking dying ugly
I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ... Edith Piaf
thinking clothes way
Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself. Edith Head
thinking greed poetry
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. Edith Sitwell
thinking frustration envy
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
thinking sea safe
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage on the seas. Edith Wharton
thinking dull ems
I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.
thinking glasses class
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!
thinking wish pot
Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...
thinking perfect people
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that. Eddie Huang
thinking
You're not as good as you think you are. Eddie Martinez
thinking years wife
I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.' Eddie Marsan
thinking faces comedy
I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
thinking make-you-think down-and
How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think. Eddie Murphy
thinking comedian actors
I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.
thinking doe concentration
I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
thinking idols giving
That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.
thinking mirrors everyday
Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.' Eddie Izzard
thinking class jet-engines
Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?
thinking humans superhuman
All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.
thinking paper toilets
You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!