Know Quotes

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

~ André Gide

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

~ Robert Bringhurst

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

~ Sean Bean

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.

~ Ethan Canin

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

~ Chuck Berry

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

~ Mary Oliver

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

~ Steve Earle

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

~ Vikram Seth

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

~ Vikram Seth

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

~ James Fenton

In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.

~ James Fenton

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

~ Candace Bushnell

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

~ Herbert Spencer

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

~ Andrew Carnegie

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

~ Henry Ford

I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human. Oh yes, I cry.

~ Ray Charles

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

~ Coco Chanel

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

~ Thomas Wolfe

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

~ Sun Tzu

Men must know their limitations.

~ Clint Eastwood

Men should strive to think much and know little.

~ Democritus

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

~ William Shakespeare

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

~ Kenneth Grahame

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

~ George Jean Nathan

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

~ Clarence Darrow

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

~ Akhenaton

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

~ Herodotus

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

~ William Ellery Channing

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

~ Arundhati Roy

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

~ Joel Osteen

What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.

~ Megyn Kelly

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

~ Albert Brooks

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilty, and we know we also get angry when we feel guilty.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.

~ Rosamund Pike

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

~ Nate Robinson

I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

~ Mike Binder