Art Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton

“Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death.”

— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating slapsticks to…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

“Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. After”

— Colson Whitehead

“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.”

— Paul Levy

“The world is boiling. You hardly dare open a paper these days: the news is all of cataclysm and collapse. Tempers are threadbare; the…

— Martin Amis

“We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called ‘hopelessness.’ It’s carried on the…

— Charles Martin

“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemic that I am witnessing some and experiencing some, a diminished ability to deal…

— Shellen Lubin

“As there was no further precaution possible I enjoyed the extraordinary magnificence of the storm with a free mind . . . and all…

— Georgina Howell

“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra