Famous Quotes
"It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it."
More quotes about Poetry
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"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
More quotes by John Cusack
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"There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense."
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"Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you."
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"Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you."
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"Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane."
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"I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan."