Casts Quote by Mikhail Bakhtin

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

— C.D. Wright

“To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.”

— John Christopher

“In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]”

— Robert Von Hallberg

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

— Francois Mauriac

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

“Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of…

— Robert T. Weston

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

“Doubt will fester as long as we live. And when one occasion of doubt has been addressed, another and then another will arise in…

— George Saunders

In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

— Elaine Equi

“There is a poetic import to the phrase ‘without a shadow of a doubt’: in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow.…

— John O'Donohue