...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need…

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”

— Cath Crowley

“Sometimes, pretending you don't know something you know helps to learn something you really don't know.”

— Anthonize Rajaratne

“Focus is the soul of success.”

— Sandeep Kakkar

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva

I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away? No. There…

— Jay-Z

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

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at…

— Gustave Flaubert

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

“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…

— Charles Simic

“[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

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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