Great Quotes

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

~ Seamus Heaney

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you like one of them, great - go buy it.

~ Chris Stapleton

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

~ Jay Parini

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

~ Felix Dennis

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

~ Ellen Key

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

~ Edward Hirsch

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

~ Edward Hirsch

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

~ Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

~ Robert Morgan

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

~ James Fenton

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

~ Lady Gregory

I'm not a great poetry fan.

~ Rupert Everett

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

~ Andrew Motion

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

~ Paul Heyse

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

~ Thomas Fuller

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

~ Yousuf Karsh

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

~ Pericles

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

~ Thomas Malthus

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

~ Chief Joseph

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

~ Havelock Ellis

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.

~ Jon Katz

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

~ Josh Homme

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

~ Edward Everett Hale

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

~ P. J. O'rourke

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

~ Alanis Morissette

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

~ Julian Baggini

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

~ Mike Nichols

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

~ Elaine Stritch

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

~ Kathy Griffin

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

~ Mike Myers

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

~ Kevin Rudd

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

~ Jeremy Taylor

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

~ Sarah Michelle Gellar

My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.

~ Bill Rancic