“I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.” WellsWantedDesirePerfectPoetScientistWho I AmObservationMake SenseDelightedAnalyzingNaturalistScience Love Author:Jane Goodall
“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.” FeelsArtDesireCreativityEventsPoetWorshipImpulseAweWorks Of ArtTransformedPassiveRiteProvoked Author:W. H. Auden
“Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.” WorldTwoDesireBloodPoetSolitudeToss Author:Matthew Arnold
“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.” DoeTodayYoungDesireArtistCreativeCryPoetIdealsViolentRebellionAestheticVeinsCreative ArtCliqueCreative ArtistsYoung ArtistsFuturist Author:Umberto Boccioni
“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.” MenWellsSometimesDesireActorsRolesPoetKingsFortuneGood ManBeggarGood ActorsSupporting RolesSupporting Actors Author:Bion of Borysthenes
“You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.” DesirePoetryEvilPoetLuckLonging Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.” ThinkingFeelsTryingSometimesFeelingsJobsDesireResultsWrittenInspirePoetProjectsPagesDrawsCome UpScreensFilmmakerViewersIntrigueIneffableGood Authors Author:Guy Maddin
“Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet.” GivingWritingBookBodyHandsMotherDesirePoetBirthCaptureGiving Birth Author:Kim Hyesoon
“My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How can I be so old and not know? I have always been deeply grateful for the urge to write, the desire to create, that's certain. Writing has always been the way I make sense of life. Perhaps my poems define me, rather than the other way around. They do constantly surprise me.” WritingDesirePoetTraditionGratefulSurpriseMake SenseSurprise Me Author:Connie Wanek
“I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any sense of normalcy in their lives, any sense of security, and most of them are oddly unique individuals. Let's have a broader conversation with people that have spent their last however-many-years thinking about their lives. I mean, they're philosophers. They're poets. They're people who are on the outside looking in at the world through a different set of values.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanDifferentDesireValuesIndividualSacrificeSecurityPoetUniqueCommitmentPhilosopherCourageous Author:Marc Maron
“I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me. They want to bring spoken, prosy language into poetry and I understand that desire. But they don't edit. It's not very curated work. It seems very lackluster, very uncareful. It may be the un-carefulness is also something they intend but there's a kind of "So what?" quality to a lot of it.” KindDesireLanguageQualityPoetConsistentlyPublish Author:Jonathan W. Galassi
“Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.” MayUseDesireVoiceImaginationGreaterPoetHeightPurityUtteranceDesire To Live Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses