Poetry Quote by Julio Cortázar

In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet…

— Herbert Read

“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”

— Frederick Smock

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”

— China Miéville

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop…

— Salman Rushdie

“To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without reflection, break…

— John Merriman

“Consider this your permission to indulge that inner anarchist. Stop following the path you ought to take; follow instead the one you long to…

— David Duchemin

“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical…

— Edna St Vincent Millay

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley