Quotes About Legacy

The poetry of country music will survive.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Our best history is still poetry.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

All revolutions devour their own children.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.