Pietros-maneos Quote by Pietros Maneos

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle