Stevie Smith
Related WENDELL BERRY Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe... SALVATORE QUASIMODO The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a... A. R. AMMONS If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. COUNTEE CULLEN WILFRED OWEN The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. YEHUDA AMICHAI EUGENE DELACROIX Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE WILFRED OWEN UNKNOWN GEORGE SAND JAMES BALDWIN RAINER MARIA RILKE JOHN CIARDI GEORGE ORWELL WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE W. H. AUDEN Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. VICENTE ALEIXANDRE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT GEORGE MACDONALD WALLACE STEVENS EDWARD DOWDEN OCTAVIO PAZ LEONARDO DA VINCI When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe... UMBERTO ECO ROBERT FROST THEOPHILE GAUTIER Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader th... JAMES LAUGHLIN LYTTON STRACHEY AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO STEVEN SEAGAL MARK VAN DOREN MARK VAN DOREN MARK VAN DOREN GERMANY KENT There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stan... GUY CLARK HUSTON SMITH MAX EASTMAN RITA DOVE ANDREW MOTION Springsteen is not a poet. DAVE MARSH EMILE ZOLA An old poet said, 'It's better to go to the Rose Bowl and lose than not to have gotten there at all.... LLOYD CARR Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the r... SALVATORE QUASIMODO BOB DYLAN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK JAMES FENTON WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING RAINER MARIA RILKE Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. –... PHILIP ZALESKI EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN VICTOR HUGO AMIT ABRAHAM BOB DYLAN SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE COLETTE GEORGE ELIOT To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. ROBERT GRAVES SIGMUND FREUD As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of... SALVATORE QUASIMODO WALLACE STEVENS To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination CARDINALDE BERNIS WILLIAM CONGREVE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather LIONEL TRILLING JEAN COCTEAU JOHN BURROUGHS Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! COUNTEE CULLEN HENRY DAVID THOREAU SIGMUND FREUD SIGMUND FREUD There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poe... ANTHONY HECHT E. B. WHITE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SUSANE COLASANTI ROBERT BROWNING NIELS BOHR ELLEN KEY ABRAHAM MASLOW ABRAHAM MASLOW EILEEN MYLES HENRY DAVID THOREAU Her poetry, which she uses to examine her deepest feelings, is beautifully crafted, She's developed ... KATE KELLY VLADIMIR NABOKOV MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN SOURCE UNKNOWN No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos... No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos... ANONYMOUS PHILIP LARKIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM LEONARD COHEN
More Stevie Smith
I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off... STEVIE SMITH I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by... STEVIE SMITH I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. STEVIE SMITH Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist... STEVIE SMITH Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, a... STEVIE SMITH Not Waving but Drowning. STEVIE SMITH The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind. STEVIE SMITH I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will jus... STEVIE SMITH I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand).... STEVIE SMITH I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,/ And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner./ Then be o... STEVIE SMITH I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. STEVIE SMITH If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on. STEVIE SMITH These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, STEVIE SMITH Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,STEVIE SMITH Into the dark night STEVIE SMITH This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind. STEVIE SMITH The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am i... STEVIE SMITH It is the privilege of the richSTEVIE SMITH Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end den... STEVIE SMITH Love me, Love me, I cried to the rocks and the trees, And Love me, they cried again, but it was only... STEVIE SMITH I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. STEVIE SMITH STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist. STEVIE JACKSON STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. STEVIE JACKSON STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it ... STEVIE JACKSON STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE WONDER STEVIE NICKS STEVIE WONDER So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames.... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my nec... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN This has got to come to a screeching halt. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same ti... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, bec... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN EMMITT SMITH ZADIE SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH ZADIE SMITH YEARDLEY SMITH YEARDLEY SMITH YEARDLEY SMITH YEARDLEY SMITH YEARDLEY SMITH My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband... TASHA SMITH I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist help... TASHA SMITH I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w... TASHA SMITH We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being h... TASHA SMITH Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't wan... TASHA SMITH I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a... TASHA SMITH Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work ... TASHA SMITH When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t... TASHA SMITH I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great opti... TASHA SMITH There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of ... TASHA SMITH There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I c... TASHA SMITH
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
All a poet can do today is warn. 
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet 
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. 
The fellow is either a madman or a poet. 
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ... 
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves ... 
After Rilke's Letters
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. 
A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never ... 
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every ... 
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make ... 
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the sol... 
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... 
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in... 
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a ... 
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to ... 
A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is not... 
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. 
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that yo... 
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet. 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. 
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. 
The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversi... 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell... 
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. 
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utteranc... 
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. 
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a c... 
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. 
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dej... 
Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see. 
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle. 
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. 
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poe... 
All's well that carries on well 
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. 
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. 
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quic... 
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. 
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ... 
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman,... 
I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... 
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. 
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ... 
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his mo... 
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. 
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me 
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ... 
Sir, I admit your general rule, 
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... 
God is the perfect poet. 
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc... 
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this ... 
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe... 
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. 
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the super... 
I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is t... 
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has no... 
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has no... 
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he choos... 
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he cho... 
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. 
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ... 
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ... 
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a goo... 
Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I we... 
I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me ... 
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... 
When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard n... 
My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my ... 
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i... 
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. 
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. 
When you create art, the world has to wait. 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
Don't confuse honours with achievement. 
There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu... 
Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican. 
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help. 
Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sport... 