Formal Quote by Peter Meinke

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is…

— Alice Oswald

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

— William Carlos Williams

“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never put into…

— Paul S. Atkins

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible…

— Jean Cocteau

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that…

— Allen Newell

“Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.”

— Toba Beta

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

— Garry Winogrand

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist…

— Julian Huxley

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's…

— Steven Cojocaru

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of…

— Lawrence Durrell