Aspiration Quote by Evan Meekins

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels

“That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.”

— Pádraig Pearse

“If it pleases me, then it is good and I want more; If it displeases me, then it must be destroyed as soon as…

— Kevin Hearne

“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.”

— Cynthia Pearl Maus

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .”

— John Berryman

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the…

— Ernesto Cardenal

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane