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Fri 8 Nov, 2002 08:48 pm
'In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.'
~ Geoffrey Cottrell
'There's one good kind of writer ~ a dead one.'
~ James T. Farrell
'The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book ~ it makes a very poor doorstop.'
~ Alfred Hitchcock
'Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.'
~ Fran Lebowitz
'I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.'
~ Russell Baker
'A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.'
~ Anonymous
'Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.'
~ Don Marquis
Poets are the trumpets which sing to battle, Poets are the unaknowledged legislators of the world- Shelley
A good poet can make the deaf hear music again- MellowGemini
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'it is in me, and shall out'.-Emerson
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he anounces that which no man foretold. He is true and only doctor; he knows and tells: he is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes. He is a beholder of ideas and an utterer of the necessary and casual.- Emmerson
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'
~ Samuel Johnson
'Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.'
~ Voltaire
'All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.'
~ William Wordsworth
'A book can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.'
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
'Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.'
~ Robert Frost
'It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.'
~ John Kepler
'My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does.'
~ Graham Greene
'Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.'
~ Sir William Temple
'To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.'
~ Otis C. Edwards
'The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend/
As a man and a woman that plight
Their troth in the warm spring night.'
~ Richard Hovey
'A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.'
~ Gore Vidal
'Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.'
~ Humphrey Carpenter
'A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.'
~ Thomas Carlyle
'I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.'
~ Fred Allen
'This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.'
~ Dorothy Parker, book review
'The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.'
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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