Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quote: 'To a poet, silence is an ...'

Related Quotes

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.
Billy Collins
Tags: Poetry Who Some
I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.
Gunnar Myrdal
Tags: Am I Am Even
sunset sea beach water horizon
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.


Thomas Babington Macaulay
I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Tags: Amazing You Think
branch sunset nature sunlight
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.


Rick Moranis
Tags: Me Always Find
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
Andrea Bocelli
Tags: Music Which Some
snow winter cold frost frozen
It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.


Sarah Jessica Parker
Tags: Me Very After
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong
Tags: Money Never Am
lake constance schladming austria
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.


Ambrose Bierce
sun pond water nature lake
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.


Colin Firth
Tags: Now Part Actually
dolomites mountains italy alpine
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.


Ninon de L'Enclos
Tags: Really Which Us
dolomites mountains italy
Spying among friends is never acceptable.


Angela Merkel
clouds sky nature weather forward
I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.


Liam Neeson
Tags: Think Very Am
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
John Drinkwater
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
Leonard Cohen
Tags: Me Had Even
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Robert Sheckley
Tags: Science You Out
sunset rock sea water horizon
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Daniel Barenboim
Tags: Many Before End
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
Octavio Paz