Celebrate Quote by Kenneth Goldsmith

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other…

— Hill Harper

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the…

— John Masefield

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence,…

— Ali Smith

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty…

— Kwame Dawes

Sometimes the efforts and the contributions we are putting in to make the world a better place for all may not be appreciated at…

— Terry Mark

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

— Gertrude Stein

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to…

— Helen Mirren

I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with…

— Anonymous

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a…

— Joan Larkin