Broken Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with…

— Cate Marvin

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for…

— Norman MacCaig

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

Some poems are art because of their passion.

— Gerald Stern

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

— Novalis