Enough Quote by Christopher Dawson

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

— Jose Marti

“[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.”

— Pat Buchanan

“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy”

— Christina Rossetti

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

— William Wordsworth

“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still…

— Robert Frost

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