Denmark Quote by James Broughton

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

— Israel Horovitz

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

— Walt Whitman

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

They are poets of gesture.

— George Balanchine

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets,…

— C.D. Wright

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

— Edmond Jabes

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.…

— Eavan Boland