Poetry Quote by Matsuo Bashô

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“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

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

— D.A. Botta

“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.”

— A. H. Septimius

“I saw that I could write ten thousand more pages of shimmering prose and still be nothing but a blind minotaur stumbling along broken…

— Michael Chabon

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

“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

“I’ve had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one’s very door or perhaps in one’s very bed. I’m still…

— Gérard de Nerval

“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