I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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Related All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears ALFRED DOUGLAS Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both. ERWIN ROMMEL I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be a... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. SYLVIA PLATH Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. AJAY NAIDU The blood jet is poetry There is no stopping it. SYLVIA PLATH Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beau... KAIT ROKOWSKI Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. ROBERT ANTON WILSON Sweat saves blood. ERWIN ROMMEL The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. K'NAAN Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in... WALLACE STEVENS Dreams are achieved by sweat, blood, tears and an iron will! AVIJEET DAS Dreams are achieved by blood, sweat, tears, and an iron-will! AVIJEET DAS Blood is just red sweat. ENSON INOUE There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality RICHARD DAWKINS Be a soldier; sacrifice your blood, sweat and tears for love. SCOTTIE SOMERS We fought to win, ... Blood, sweat and tears. CHARLIE WOLF It changed poetry for ever in the UK. It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more... ADRIAN MITCHELL Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes. LEAH DANCEL The truest poetry is the most feigning;and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition. SANOBER KHAN Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blo... JACQUES MARITAIN We were very hard workers. We put sweat and blood into it. And, at The Rib Shack, I tried to make it... FRANK MANGIERI I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. WINSTON CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. WINSTON CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy ... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for ... JEAN COCTEAU Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po... WILLIAM BLAKE I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and scre... BLAKE JENNER If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.... EMILY DICKINSON I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writin... CASSANDRA CLARE Jujitsu is blood, sweat and tears. It takes hard work, perseverance and tenacity to be successful. JOSE ORTIZ Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day. GABBY DOUGLAS Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenl... PAUL MULDOON Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulat... FRANZ WRIGHT And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood fa... BIBLE Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Blood, sweat and tears is the difference between you and your competition. KISHAN S CHAUHAN Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly ... TERRANCE HAYES I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin... SALIL JHA I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. PAULEY PERRETTE He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. OSCAR WILDE Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. RALPH WALDO EMERSON New ages don't arrive overnight, or without "blood, sweat, and tears." BILL MOYERS There's been too much blood, sweat and tears put into this. JOSH WRIGHT There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. PAUL BRYANT Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself. AUSTIN CLARKE All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place, ... It's when we start spilli... DAVID HUME The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover beh... KIM YOUNG-SAM A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. JASON KIDD A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. GEORGE S. PATTON I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be qui... SHELBY FOOTE It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start ... DAVID HUME I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes. ELIZABETH TAYLOR It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europ... LAFCADIO HEARN What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. WALLACE STEVENS Blood, sweat, and tea, sister! That's what it takes to achieve all great and terrible things. EMORY R. FRIE The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that pe... CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that pe... CHARLES F. KETTERING The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that pe... CHARLES F. KETTERING Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me. ZANE GREY I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ... PAUL DIRAC Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that ac... EDWARD HIRSCH But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and de... DARYNDA JONES Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to h... ROBERT BURNS Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to h... ROBERT BURNS A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. AUSTIN O'MALLEY A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. GEORGE S. PATTON A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. PAUL BRYANT So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha... JEANETTE WINTERSON Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. AUDEN Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. AUDEN The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe... EDWARD HIRSCH I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to off... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It's not easy to define poetry. BOB DYLAN Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. T... ROBERT ADAMSON Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrif... GABBY DOUGLAS To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with p... BRIAN HARRIS If poetry dies, nothing lives ! VIHANG A. NAIK Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. VINCENT VAN GOGH Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. PLUTARCH Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. P... KAMAND KOJOURI For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-k... ROBERT PINSKY We've had a lot of blood and sweat put into the school by parents and volunteers, JACKIE COLLINS [The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rej... ADRIAN MITCHELL Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. WILFRED OWEN Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had th... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. HENRY DAVID THOREAU There are people in our community writing poetry. This brings it down home. Your friend next door co... AMANDA CUNNINGHAM
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