Firsts Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in…

— Joseph Conrad

“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about him. If…

— Salman Rushdie

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— Anonymous

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

— Mark Twain

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

— Walt Whitman

“He felt at loose ends with himself like a man in a foreign city where he didn’t know the language. He felt out of…

— William Miller

“Why everybody liked him was what puzzled Jo, at first. He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, in no respect what is…

— Louisa May Alcott