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“Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!”

Years Song Son Poet Tvs Series Theme Bob Royalty Tv Series Oldest Son

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.”

World Needs Giving Heart Littles Poet Give Me Theme Cried

Author:Richard Watson Gilder

“... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.”

Poetry Passion Poet Survival Theme

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“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.”

Thinking Would Be Animal Creation Poet Capable Active Bored Boredom Theme Lazy Subtle Maxims Great Poet

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.”

Dream Common Poet Eternal Lips Familiar Pursue Streams Theme Dreamer Gleam Transitory

Book:The Poems of William Watson

Source: The Poems of William Watson

“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?”

Needs Book Home Challenges Race Modern Poet Murder Suicide Novelists Theme Destroying Milton Melville

Author:Edward Abbey

“For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.”

Knows Mind May Doe Art States Use Order Speak Known Divine Poet Holy Ministers Prophet Theme Speakers Priceless Unconsciousness Holy Prophet

Author:Plato