Complaining Quote by Felix Dennis

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

— William Shakespeare

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

— E. Stanley Jones

Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take…

— William Empson

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

— Frank Skinner

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time…

— Billy Collins

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

— Malcolm Gladwell

We must listen to poets.

— Gaston Bachelard

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

— William Butler Yeats

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon…

— Gail Tsukiyama

“I have a poet's weakness for symbols.”

— Tennessee Williams