Quote by George Murray
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend its no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often its really just about the money, the perceived prestige. – George Murray

Other quotes by George Murray

Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

Well, we all start thinking were going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. – George Murray

Category:
Romantic
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove

Category:
Poetry

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. – Carol Ann Duffy

Category:
Poetry

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. – James Laughlin

Category:
Poetry

There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Parents

The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. – Vinton Cerf

Category:
Internet

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. – A. C. Benson

Category:
Age

Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous. – Judy Moreo

Category:
Presentation