Francois Coppee quotes

Francois Coppee quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.”
-- Francois Coppee

#Romantic Love Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.”
“I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn't a romantic love, but there was something about him. It's very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.”
“The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.”
“How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.”
“With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.”
“Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.”
“Poets are born, not paid.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”
“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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