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"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.
Quote by -Thomas Mann
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Quote by -Tom Stoppard
A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Quote by -Salman Rushdie
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
Quote by -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
Quote by -Billy Collins
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Quote by -Billy Collins
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
Quote by -Billy Collins
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Quote by -Billy Collins
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.
Quote by -Billy Collins
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
Quote by -Billy Collins
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
Quote by -Billy Collins
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
Quote by -Billy Collins
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
Quote by -Billy Collins