Written Quotes

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.