Character Quote by George Gordon Byron

“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem when it…

— Samuel Beckett

“Depict your sorrows and desires, your passing thoughts and beliefs in some kind of beauty- depict all that with heartfelt, quiet, humble sincerity and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very…

— Walt Whitman

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between…

— Ben Lerner

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“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

“It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.”

— Deborah Levy

“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

— Alfred Jarry

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

“ I spent my day as I normally spend my days: threatening suppliers, bullying those who are not in line with my expectations, and…

— Courtney Milan

“Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility…

— Fredrik Sjöberg