“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.” IfsWishAudiencePoetIndustryAmbitionSakeArguingLecturesCrowdedCitations Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates
“The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.” HeartCarePoetAmbitionCriticsSakeReputationPoeticStoicismLove Poetry Book:The Brownings' Correspondence Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.” PeopleFirstsHeartEyeLyingHatePassionLanguageVoiceGriefSecretBrainFatePoetWindSourcePrideAmbitionSpringDeeperVainHis EyesMelodyDisguiseListenersStrainPenetrateHarpsTouchstonesTalismans Book:The Poems Source: The Poems
“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.” WorldLanguagePrayerPoetBrokenAmbitionClothesPraiseDressesRemainsProfoundExtraordinaryHeroicDelicateHonorableGraciousEloquentBroken World Author:David St. John
“In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.” ThinkingWellsTogetherTalentPoetEqualAmbitionPagesPicksProseSlidesDisgraceCarelessOld DaysGreat Ambition Author:William H. Gass
“I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.” MenSoulEarthChristianLife IsWinningPoetKingsAmbitionArmyChristian InspirationalNovelistsPreacherEmperorLife Ambition Author:R. A. Torrey
“People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensBodyAgeAbleFightingPoorProducePoetAmountDepressionAmbitionMovedIncrediblesSensitiveThirtyPlath Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.” WorldKindThis WorldPoetAmbitionAcceptedVanityVainAmbitious Author:Stephen Spender
“In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.” MindHas BeensMadeFictionPoetShapesAmbitionInstrumentsLawyerPriestsLogicalCoinsAmusementImmoralityFramedMischievous Book:The works Source: The works