Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.
Tags: talent art music poetry writing genius poet skill alexander-pope an-essay-on-criticism
Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail."
"Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.
Tags: humor money talent funny
Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.
David E. WilkinsTags: talent leader indigenous-peoples hank-adams
NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSE
To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife
who washes the socks and the children,
and returns phone calls and library books and types.
In other words, the reason there are so many more
Men Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.
It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.
And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.
Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theater
matinees--on Saturdays?
Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,
chicken pox or chipped teeth?
Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fender
his teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.
Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.
And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-three
for Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.
I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,
and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricycler
On becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.
Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,
tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,
and I'll tell you no muse is a good muse
unless she also helps with the laundry.
Tags: talent art women muse women-the-arts
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.
Ngaio Marsh...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
Patrick SüskindTags: talent experience humility hard-work
Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
Stephen KingTags: talent writing creativity
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.
Criss JamiTags: talent soul genius emotion amazement skill gift downplay surprising
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
Criss JamiTags: individuality talent coolness originality conformity nonconformity independence fool skill trends cool
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Criss JamiTags: talent honesty originality pleasure creativity wit selfishness skill helping-others support envy credit plagiarism copyright copying copyright-infringement
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