Poetry Quote by Ilya Ehrenburg

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

— Stephen Dobyns

“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not…

— Roberto Calasso

“Perhaps it was because of his wife that Pippo the farmer dreamt of becoming a sailor. There are certain people on this earth who…

— Timothée de Fombelle

“Real poetry is like a sail at the open sea.”

— Eva Sonenberg

“I shot the ALBATROSS.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened…

— Lynn Freed

“That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career…

— Mark Obmascik

“There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the…

— Tom Neale

“He has ' le coeur comme un artichaud '. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' ' Oui .…

— Poppy Z. Brite

“The selfmoment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.”

— Anonymous

“The world was a glorious place this morning. The birds were particularly noisy in their greeting to the day. The sky was a cloudless…

— Karen Ranney

“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so?…

— Walter Martin