Jaime Gil de Biedma famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.
-- Jaime Gil de Biedma

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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

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