Quotes About Dedication

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.