Think Quotes

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

~ Natasha Trethewey

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

~ Jamila Woods

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

~ Robert Morgan

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

~ Robert Morgan

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

~ Robert Morgan

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

~ Robert Morgan

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

~ Caroline Kennedy

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

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

~ Jonathan Galassi

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

~ Jonathan Galassi

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

~ Jonathan Galassi

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

~ June Jordan

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

~ Randall Jarrell

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

~ John Ashbery

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

~ Malcolm X

The less men think, the more they talk.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

~ Ice-T

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

~ Blaise Pascal

Men should strive to think much and know little.

~ Democritus

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

~ Lord Byron

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

~ Walter Lippmann

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

~ Claude Lévi-Strauss

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

~ Amy Winehouse

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

~ Knute Rockne

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

~ Jackie Kennedy

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

~ Confucius

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

~ Dalai Lama

Anger is just not who I am, and I don't think it's what voters in the 6th district want. They want respectful, decent representation that contrasts so starkly with what we have in Washington.

~ Jon Ossoff

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.

~ Ntozake Shange

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

~ Amy Winehouse

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

~ Chris Hayes

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

~ George Jean Nathan

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

~ Gore Vidal

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

~ Nell Hudson

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

~ Douglas Coupland

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

~ John Mcenroe

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

~ Albert Brooks

Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

~ Albert Brooks

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

~ Peter Hook

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

~ Willie Nelson