Doe Quote by Eugenio Montale Download Open image “The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.” — Eugenio Montale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Poet Poetry Writing
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand Copy Share Image
“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks;… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
