Absurd Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.…

— John Steinbeck

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day, we can…

— Owen Barfield

To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate…

— Virginia Woolf

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much…

— Robert Frost

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility…

— Ben Jonson

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as…

— George Washington

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets wish to profit or to please.

— Horace