Giving Quote by Janet Malcolm

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They…

— Helen Hayes

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

— John Cheever

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

— E.M. Forster

The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.

— Wallace Stevens

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any…

— Pablo Picasso