Quotes About Legacy

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

From an England point of view they have put money into white-ball cricket because our performances in World Cups has not been good enough, I understand the reasons for that. But we have to be careful not to go too one-day, we have to find a balance because there is such a legacy of Test cricket in this country and we can't lose that.

My dad always pointed out Louis Armstrong's pad when we passed by there. And me and my dad were both proud Louis Armstrong was from New Orleans.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

I don't know if my father realizes this, but I remember sitting there watching 'Apocalypse Now,' watching Pacino in 'Scarface' and watching James Dean in 'East of Eden' with him. And him he's not in the arts at all just pointing out 'the greats.'

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.