Fool Quote by Dylan Thomas

The poem is a confession of faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I,…

— John Donne

“It is incomprehensible that he should want to have these futile people here, and still more incomprehensible that he should be able to sit…

— Pär Lagerkvist

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

— Francois Mauriac

“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory had shown…

— Hermann Hesse

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by…

— Neil Gaiman

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's…

— Sidney Lanier

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From…

— Andrei Codrescu