“a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.”
Source: Speak, Memory
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Vladimir Nabokov193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
"Fear and loathing" (2001)
Context: Violence must come; America must have catharsis. We would hope that the response will be, above all, non-escalatory. It should also mirror the original attack in that it should have the capacity to astonish. A utopian example: the crippled and benighted people of Afghanistan, hunkering down for a winter of famine, should not be bombarded with cruise missiles; they should be bombarded with consignments of food, firmly marked LENDLEASE — USA.
Alan Shepard (1923–1998) American astronaut
On dedicating the Astronaut Hall of Fame — reported in Associated Press (May 12, 1990) "Five of Mercury Seven return to the Cape, Launch Hall of Fame - Astronauts hope exhibits will inspire youths to learn", The Gazette, p. A2.
“We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Complete Prose Works (1892), III. Notes Left Over 3. Ventures, on an Old Theme, p.324 http://books.google.com/books?id=UJA1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA324 <br class="br">Context: If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere — probably more than the rest of the world combined.<br>Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.<br>To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Credo (1965)
Context: I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man’s capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy.
I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create...