Great writing Quote by Michael Pollan

“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”

— Robert Lynd

“I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.”

— Theodore Roethke

“...and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain,…

— Don DeLillo

“You can walk through the grocery store and, while the brightly colored packaging and empty promises are still mesmerizing, you can see the products…

— Michael Moss

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through…

— Margaret Atwood

“Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.”

— Eloisa James

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”

— Cath Crowley

“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.”

— Jean Cocteau

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy