Appropriate Quote by Heinrich Heine

“I foresee,’ said Goethe, ‘the dawn of a new literature which all people may claim as their own, for all have contributed to its…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

— Heinrich Heine

“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that…

— T.S. Eliot

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation. The first…

— Novalis

“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became…

— Erich Auerbach

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed what in…

— Oscar Wilde

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood or sat…

— Benjamin Blech