Nations Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

“There is no different nations, or people. There is no countries, and never was. There is, just a system we live in.”

— VicDo

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of…

— Janez Drnovsek

“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what…

— Luis de Góngora

“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not…

— Harold Bloom

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does…

— Arthur Hopcraft

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

— Raymond Chandler

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a…

— Edward Hirsch

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but…

— Diane Wakoski

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

— Geoffrey Hill

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton