Judgment day Quote by Czesław Miłosz

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you and I,…

— Terry Eagleton

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“How Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire I go…

— Gary Snyder

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato