“I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.” BelieveSoulPoetryPoetEach DayLazyTypewritersTypingAmphetamines Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.” ThinkingWould BeAnimalCreationPoetCapableActiveBoredBoredomThemeLazySubtleMaximsGreat Poet Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.” PeopleAmericaUsedEasyQualityModernDogPoetCatAttractiveLazyCleanersDisloyalModern America Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.” BelieveArtEnoughLyingLeftVirtueMagicPoetLosingOriginalsLazyRemoveIrrelevantEnvelopes Book:Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems Source: Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems
“I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.” WantedArtistToo MuchPoetLazyFrightenedDrank Author:Peter Blegvad