And love Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly.Cling to them, survey them from every…

— C. Christopher Smith

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

— Auguste Rodin

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is…

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

— Jewel

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude…

— Joseph Brodsky

My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older…

— Derek Walcott