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James Tate Quotes

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1943 - July 8, 2015

Topics

Funny Love Heart Best I Can Break

It never was my plan to get into television.

Plan Television Never Get

Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.

Time Light Beginning Sun End You

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

Home Future Car Today Mirror Past

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Intellectual Subway Highway Also

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Love Time Game Pride Gay Disco

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

Technology People Enough Out Experts

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Life You Nobody Mafia Out Like

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

Love Myself People Disappointment

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Goal Meant To Be Aim Always Simply

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

Changes Difficulty Involved

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

Annie Smith Peck

Man Satisfaction Labor Follow Hard

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

Time Remember You Ten Years Old Off

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