Bread Quote by Pablo Neruda

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be…

— Samuel Johnson

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private…

— Harold Innis

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human…

— Bei Dao

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

— James Broughton