French poetry Quote by Israel Zangwill

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

— Simon Cowell

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Hey, I get quite disturbed when you call me that. You shouldn't make fun of foreigners. Besides, I hate French people. - Pip

— South Park

“Liberty On my notebooks from school On my desk and the trees On the sand, on the snow I write your name On every…

— Paul Éluard

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I…

— Paul Auster

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry… Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It…

— Paul Celan

“En la forest de Longue Attente chevauchant par divers sentiers m'en voys, ceste année présente où voyage de Desiriers. Devant sont aller mes fourriers…

— Hella S. Haasse

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

— Marco Rubio

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind…

— Paul Auster

“The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a…

— Eve Marie Mont

“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each man carries…

— Aleister Crowley Charles Baudelaire

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,…

— Yukio Mishima

“The demon stopped its frantic attempts to escape. It stared at the glitter and began to pant, fingers twitching in anticipation. More twitching. Faster…

— Jana Oliver