Artist Quote by Paul Auster

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“About Jews: The phenomenon of why Jews have kept the unanimity of a distinctive culture is because combination of the persecution and specific Jewish…

— Leo Pevsner

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

— Shimon Peres

“Their Jewishness is visible in their physical appearance, and one notices their Jewish heritage in their intellectual work.”

— Alexander Kennedy

“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.”

— Dana Gioia

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying…

— Cynthia Ozick

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

— Matisyahu

“There are few aspects of my family not imbued with Jewishness; it is braided through every memory, part of nearly every conversation and every…

— Tova Mirvis

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or saints. Others…

— Colin Wilson

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit