Life Quote by Louise Cowan

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

“I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the pleasure and…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“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

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that…

— James A. Secord

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of…

— Paul Valéry

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

— Adrienne Rich

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee