„A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.“
Squares and Oblongs, in Poets at Work (1948), p. 170
W. H. Auden3
englischer Schriftsteller 1907 - 1973Ähnliche Zitate
„A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.“
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko Russian poet, film director, teacher 1932 - 2017
Andrew R. MacAndrew (trans.) A Precocious Autobiography (1963; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965) p. 7.
„God loves only those who are not concerned with anything else.“
— Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar ibn al-Hasan al-Niffari
Quelle: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 80
„A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.“
— O. Henry American short story writer 1862 - 1910
“Makes the Whole World Kin,” Sixes and Sevens (1911)
„I'm no novelist. Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.“
— Vernon Scannell British boxer and poet 1922 - 2007
Scannell's diary entry - 28 December 1966 James Andrew Taylor - Walking Wounded: The Life and poetry of Vernon Scannell O U P 2013 ISBN 9780199603183
„Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.“
— Alexander Graham Bell scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone 1847 - 1922
As quoted in Sophia's Fire (2005) by Sango Mbella, p. 133.
„Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.“
— Marcus Orelias American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur 1993
„I was kind of doing this before I did anything else.“
— St. Vincent (musician) American singer-songwriter 1982
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
Kontext: The first thing I did when I picked up any instrument, when I was five years old, was write a song. It's kind of funny; I thought about it, statements that it's a "solo effort" — it's kind of like, "Oh, well I've been doing this since I was five." I was kind of doing this before I did anything else.
„Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.“
— Maurice Denis French painter 1870 - 1943
as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41]
Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922
„Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.“
— David Levithan American author and editor 1972
Quelle: How They Met, and Other Stories
„The name of a person you love is more than language.“
— Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983
— Andrew Solomon American journalist 1963
--Carol
Quelle: Far from the Tree, Ch. 11 Transgender, p 671.
„If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.“
— Beth Moore American evangelist 1957
— Robert Graves English poet and novelist 1895 - 1985
Lecture at Oxford as quoted in Time (15 December 1961).
General sources
— Edward McKendree Bounds clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church South 1835 - 1913
The Weapon of Prayer.
