Poetry Quote by Marcel Proust

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“It reminds me of poets, before all this—how the sensitive souls who submitted their work to literary journals outnumbered those who read those same…

— Adrian Barnes

“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their…

— Leslie S. Klinger

“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but…

— Edward B. Hanna

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.”

— Annie Dillard