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Famous Quotes

"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to."
Jewel on Poetry

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
Oscar Wilde on Poetry
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
Oscar Wilde on Poetry
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
T. S. Eliot on Poetry
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost on Poetry
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Robert Frost on Poetry

"I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave."
"Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together."
"I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic."
"Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together."
"For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom."