Life Quote by D.A. Botta

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“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

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg