Attempting Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps not strictly…

— Frank Kermode

“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is nonetheless at…

— Georges Bataille

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is…

— Ben Lerner

“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.”

— Umberto Eco

“If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the…

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach