Actual life Quote by E.T.A. Hoffmann

“It’s like that moment when, often early in the morning, perhaps in a strange house, you pass before a mirror you hadn’t known would…

— Linda Anderson

“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what…

— Alberto Caeiro

“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to achieve a…

— the mag man

“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

“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

— Alfred Jarry

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

— D.A. Botta

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“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

“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some…

— Katherine Mansfield

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

“Your poetry is mysterious. Do you intend me to comprehend you, or are you hoping that I mistake my own dullness for your wisdom?”

— Anne Fortier

“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan