Alliances Quote by Herbert Read

“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a…

— Martin Langford

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either…

— Andrew Motion

The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to…

— May Sarton

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and…

— Socrates