![[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-poet-must-write-as-the-interpreter-of-nature-and-the-legislator-of-mankind.jpg)
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writing inspire relate
You can't write if you can't relate. Beck
writing eight years
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
writing spots studios
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
writing pulse said
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that. Becca Fitzpatrick
writing guy stuff
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
writing brave firsts
You have to be very brave in that first writing session. Barry Mann
writing thinking insanity
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
generations ships crosses
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
generations passwords transmit
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
generations this-generation feels
I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music. Carrie Underwood
generations brando my-generation
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. Bette Davis
generations productions
All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. Bill Vaughan
generations vietnam
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve. Al Franken
generations done ruins
We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation. Al Gore
generations lost-hope generation-x
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope. Alanis Morissette
generations agendas next
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth? Ayelet Waldman
poet sacked strip work workshop
I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back. Daisy Ridley
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry verses wrote
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. Sophie Hannah
poet words
If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words. Johnny Pesky
poetry
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poet poetry teach wrote
He said, 'I can't teach someone how to write,' ... He just thought if you were a poet, you wrote poetry. Anne Wright
poet public wandered
He was a poet who serendipitously wandered into public life.
poet rapture prose
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Charles Churchill
poetry saying whining
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne