Exile Quote by Peter Bichsel

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of…

— Octavio Paz

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...”

— Natasha Trethewey

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

— Amy Lowell

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

“All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can…

— Plato

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.

— Derek Walcott

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

— Gerald Stern

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

— Pattiann Rogers