People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should … - Lucille Clifton

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.

Lucille Clifton

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrated, Hymns, Mistake, Poetry, Poets, Writing

Same Author Quotes

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Care, Poet, Writer, Writing

Tell the truth. . . maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

Healing, Maybe, Possible, Tell, Telling The Truth, Truth

You cannot play for safety and make art.

Art, Make, Play, Safety

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

Letting Go, New Year, Promises, Running, Strong

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

Accept, Accepting, Call Me, Poem