who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

— Richard Rodriguez

Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

— Martin Buber

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love…

— Martin Buber

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

— Hortense Calisher

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

— Johann Johannsson

If I'm singing powerfully, I need something powerful behind me so that I don't feel like I am left alone.

— Tarja Turunen

“I am positively charged and powerfully connected.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

— Charles R. Swindoll

He who would preach powerfully must pray effectively.

— Oswald J. Smith

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

— Anita Diament

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

— Susan Glaspell