Cherries Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first,…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

— George Chapman

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a…

— Henry David Thoreau

People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular.…

— Anna Quindlen

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in."…

— Donald Hall

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or…

— Rene Char

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

— Michael Longley