Fame Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

— Jane Austen

“What we eat is a poem.”

— Anthony Doerr

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives…

— Henry David Thoreau

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

— Joyce Carol Oates

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

“Love is poetry, poetry is love”

— Milan Kundera

“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.”

— Debasish Mridha

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe