Quotes About Legacy

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.

We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that's why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.