Art Quote by Camile Pagli

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

— Keith Crown

The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets…

— John Burnside

“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers.”

— Azar Nafisi

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas…

— Diane Wakoski

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind…

— Robert Morgan

Poerty is composition to which the soul bleeds.

— ADKruk

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