Letters Quote by Franz Kafka

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12”

— Aristophanes

“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it is a…

— Frank O'Hara

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by…

— Neil Gaiman

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō