Books Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

— Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the…

— Hakim Bey

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences:…

— Jan Theuninck