All things Quote by Charlie Chaplin

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire…

— W. H. Auden

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

— W. H. Auden

“For love is greater than any wind of words. And man, leaning at his window under the stars, is once again responsible for the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his…

— Carlo Carra

“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or…

— Vladimir Nabokov

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With…

— Maxine Kumin

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

— Gil Scott-Heron

“Death is sometimes kinder than Love.”

— Rick Riordan

“Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.”

— Eleesha

“What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would…

— Meredith Taylor

“To Americans, time always sounds like a parade chez vous [at your house], a triumphant parade, like armies with banners entering a town .…

— James Baldwin

“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those…

— Shannon Celebi

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”

— Nalo Hopkinson