Country Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem…

— Mary Ruefle

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Edmond Jabes

“If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.”

— Michael Langley

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

“In the republic of poetry, the guard at the airport will not allow you to leave the country until you declaim a poem for…

— Martin Espada

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in…

— T. S. Eliot

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Poems arrive ready to begin. Poets are only the transportation.”

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander

“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge…

— Suman Pokhrel