Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore…

— Will Schwalbe

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a…

— Eavan Boland

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance…

— Gaston Bachelard

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

— e. e. cummings

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis

“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps not strictly…

— Frank Kermode

“The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible…

— Aristotle

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present—and can be         none in the future; And I will show that, whatever…

— Walt Whitman

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these…

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac