Pietro Aretino Quotes

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Pietro Aretino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: April 20, 1492 - October 21, 1556

Topics

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In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it's a sign of weakness to ask for help.

Jesmyn Ward

CultureWeaknessAmericanHelpAsk

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

Angus Young

HandsShadyEvenOurLyric

'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

Ann Leckie

AlonePeopleBookSayStrangeSize

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

Jeanne Calment

LifePeopleSometimesMakeRotten

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that's, you know, maybe a personal thing.

John Zorn

HistoryYourselfCreativeThinkYou

I would have loved to study medicine, but I was lucky to have come into the profession that I loved. I may not have been very good at it, but I loved it.

Roger Moore

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I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.

Michelle Wie

GoodCrazyRebelBadKindLittle

That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.

Juan Manuel Santos

PeaceWhyMilitaryMayEveryFights

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

Dolly Wells

MeYouGoSayActorTry

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

DeRay Mckesson

ChangeOvernightSystemicRarely

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Anthony Bourdain

GoodSleepingSmellMeanOutFuel

'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.

Alice Munro

ExperienceSeriousNewEditingFirst

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