Poetry Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of any poet…

— Dan Schneider

“Unfortunately I’m not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads…Rilke,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men…

— Edgar Fawcett

“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.”

— Annette Whitaker-Moss

“It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone would be…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

“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

“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house…

— Clive James

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously…

— Katy Lederer