Books Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

— Lucian of Samosata

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“The man was poetry in motion.”

— Danielle Bourdon

“The poet writes the history of his own body.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry is the image of man and nature”

— Wordsworth William

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is…

— Aristotle

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski