Charles Ives Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

  Charles Ives

  Horse, Poetry, Heaven

• It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

  Charles Ives

  Horse, Learning, Play

• If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'

  Charles Ives

  Horse, Father, Men

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