Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
~ Vanessa Redgrave
Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.
~ John Trudell
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
~ Tom Wesselmann
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
~ James Dickey
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
~ Russell Simmons
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
~ Billy Collins
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
~ Annie Lennox
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
~ Neil Gaiman
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
~ Aaron Neville
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
~ Felix Dennis
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
~ Mary Oliver
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
~ Steve Earle
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
~ Vikram Seth
I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
~ Eileen Myles
Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.
~ David Whyte
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
~ Andrew Motion
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
~ Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
~ Martha Graham
I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
~ Greta Garbo
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
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
~ Yair Lapid
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
~ Jim Lehrer
I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.
~ Emma Stone
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
~ Maxine Waters
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
~ Brené Brown
I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.
~ George Foreman
Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
~ Taya Kyle
Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.
~ Clive Sinclair
If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.
~ Lynn Nottage
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.
~ Jenson Button
I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
~ Marcia Cross
What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.
~ Kathy Freston
