Quotes of: Roberts Keyword

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Nick Flynn

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Natasha Trethewey

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Paul Muldoon

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Tom Stoppard

My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

Prince William

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Darrell Royal

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Octavia E. Butler

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Jennifer Aniston

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Bobby Fischer

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

Gail Parent

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

Pierre de Coubertin

Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.

David H. Murdock

There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.

Francois-Henri Pinault

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

James Cash Penney

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

Little Richard