“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.” NeedsGivingLostMemoriesMy OwnLossRecordsJourneyPoetBecomingLosingSugarAuntGive And TakeMemory LossLost OnesLosing Her Author:Natasha Trethewey
“Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.” MenReasonDoneWholeBigsAgePastPoliticalUsedMoralTakenPoetKingsBecomingPraiseCourtAbsurdSchemesEmployedDefenceOathResentBig BusinessPatronPatronageBusiness ManTimes Past Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.” SpiritPoetryPoetBecomingLettersAccomplished Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.” LanguageStuffConsciousnessEnvironmentOne ThingPoetBecomingConcernEnvironmentalElsewhereBleedingCool Stuff Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.” PeopleWorldNeedsArtEyePoetBecomingConversationEducatedVulnerableVisibleHorizonWorkplaceHere And NowHazardsInviting Author:David Whyte
“Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.” SeemsJobsGrowthPoetBecomingRelatedEmbarrassed Book:Old snow just melting: essays and interviews Source: Old snow just melting: essays and interviews
“I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a sort of poet in rest, which isn't the same thing at all. But I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.” ThinkingWritingFallWrittenPoetBecomingMagnificentFulfilled Author:Sylvia Plath
“Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.” KindCareFictionDangerPoetBecomingFiction Writers Author:John Updike
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” LoveLifeHeartStillsWisdomLightGrowsFriendshipLove IsMarriageFireLove YouPoetWise WordsBecomingWords Of WisdomHotTrue LoveCaughtBurningFlamesMartial ArtsMatureMatesInspirational LoveFierceRomantic LoveCoalOur LoveSoulmateDeep ThoughtBeginningDeep LoveSoul MateOnly LoveLove Is LikeFamous LoveTime LoveThose We LoveOne Line FriendshipPerfect LoveCute LoveFlickerTime And LoveLove GrowsLove For HerMartial Arts InspirationalYour SoulmateMature LoveSoulmate LoveLoving LoveTrue Love Is ForeverLight And LoveFire Of LoveUltimate LoveMy SoulmateFire BurningYour My SoulmateFlames And LoveSoulmates And LoveBurning LoveUndying LoveBurning HeartFlickering LightBurning FireHeart On FireOpening Our Hearts Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.” FeelsResultsClearPoetBecomingMusicianStrongerMental HealthAthletePhilosopherMissionsIntegratingJocksLethargyBecoming Stronger Author:Alanis Morissette