Merit Quote by Jose Marti

“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one…

— Shūsaku Endō

“Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool. And…

— John Gardner

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

— John Dryden

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet…

— Martin Heidegger

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

— Anonymous

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

— Hartley Coleridge