Hunger Quote by Joyce Kilmer

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

— Charles Baudelaire

“I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be your poet.…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Hunger brings a halt to love, or if not hunger, Time, or if those are of no avail, a noose.”

— Crates of Thebes

“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth…

— Czesław Miłosz

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Being constantly hungry is no life at all.”

— Emma Woolf

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

To a poet nothing can be useless

— Samuel Johnson

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos