Ambition Quote by David St. John

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons…

— Aberjhani

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with…

— Alok Mishra

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“Being his workmanship doesn’t mean we are all poets. It means we are all poems, individual created works of a creative God. And this…

— Emily P. Freeman

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

— Anonymous

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by…

— William Faulkner

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined…

— Samuel R. Delany