Cautious Quote by John C. Maxwell

“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And when he…

— Ted Gup

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

— Charles Bukowski

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a…

— A. R. Ammons

“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed.…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for the sake…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

— Alexander Brome

“A man innocently dabbles in words and rhymes and finds that it is his life”

— Patrick Kavanagh

“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the…

— Jane Cooper

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion…

— Philip K. Dick

“As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.”

— Sally Warner