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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.


Yevgeny Yevtushenko


#anything #autobiography #else #footnote #his

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew.


Anne Moody


#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.


Criss Jami


#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'


Alexandra Roach


#biography #breathe #daughter #engulfed #few

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.


Gunther Schuller


#books #continue #i #like #read

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.


Robert Penn Warren


#autobiography #deepest #hazardous #part #poem

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.


Margaret Atwood


#life-and-living #life-lessons #writing-life #life

Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification.


Frank W. Abagnale


#book-to-movie #theft #movies

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.


W. H. Auden


#characters #concerned #don quixote #ego #every

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.


John Berger


#autobiography #begins #being #being alone #form






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