Crude Quote by Henry Miller

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisiac Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream. We stand here too conscious…

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,…

— John Keats

“The poem no longer transcended reality.”

— Jean Améry

“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage through the…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.…

— Adrienne Rich

“The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our deepest secret,…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether…

— William Hazlitt