Great Quote by Ellen Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is…

— Ellen Key

“poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest…

— Julian Barnes

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

— Oscar Wilde

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

— Edith Sitwell

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much…

— Honore de Balzac

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

— Robert Graves

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only…

— Kiki Dimoula