French Poets Quotes

#1. Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the French poets are the sympathetic heirs of classic culture, it appears to me that they are not so imbued with the true classic spirit, art, and mythology as some of our English poets, notably Keats and Shelley.

William Shakespeare

#2. I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

#3. My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Henry Rollins

#4. If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Jesse Jackson

#6. Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.

Irina Ratushinskaya

#7. We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys.

Patti Smith

#8. As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

Rupert Holmes

#9. I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

#11. In the mind that is once truly disciplined and purged, thou canst not find anything, either foul or impure, or as it were festered: nothing that is either servile, or affected: no partial tie; no malicious averseness; nothing obnoxious; nothing concealed.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? - Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#15. God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

Douglas Coupland

#16. I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Marilyn Hacker

#17. You can't have one without the other,
you can't be something you don't believe,
you can't live if you linger in tomorrow,
you can't be in the past and expect to see me,
but you can only love when you're in the right here, right now.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

#18. I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Alexander Walker

#19. Life is just a dream on the way to death.

James O'Barr

#20. If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

Jerry Spinelli