Gratitude Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of him again…

— Franz Kafka

“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

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“Poetry is capable of saving us.”

— Anonymous

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard

“POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.”

— Amy King

“Hesitation must be put to death in order to conquer failure.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Incomprehensible is the height of your spirit both in heroical resolution and matters of conceit. Unreprievably perishes that book whatsoever to wastepaper, which on…

— Thomas Nashe

“Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.”

— Stephen Fitzsimons