Eternal Quote by Joseph Campbell

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

— Gore Vidal

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The distance runner who accepts the past in the person he is, and sees the future as a promise rather than a threat, is…

— George Sheehan

“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet might have…

— Jennifer Ashton

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,”

— Aristotle

June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k.…

— Audre Lorde

“If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero.…

— Steve Maraboli

The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving…

— Eileen Myles

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have…

— Clive James