James Tate famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Bad spellers of the world untie!
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
Poets are born, not paid.
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
You don't need vision to be a visionary.

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