Communication Quote by Gaston Bachelard

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— John Berryman

When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on…

— Gulzar

“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”

— Carolina De Robertis

“It is incomprehensible that he should want to have these futile people here, and still more incomprehensible that he should be able to sit…

— Pär Lagerkvist

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

— William Wordsworth

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani