Has beens Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

“it’s not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to be undergone.…

— David Orr

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“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

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

— Jonathan Swift

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

“Were the world a just place and given into Poet Eanrin's hands to dictate, he would have written things as they ought to be.…

— Anne Elisabeth Stengl

“the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were”

— Marcel Proust

“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

“The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed.”

— Mary Oliver