Arthur Quote by Raymond Sokolov

“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbauld

“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the…

— Graham Robb

“He will never be satisfied,” writes one biographer...I know because I suffer from the same disease...I don't believe for a minute that the flowers…

— Henry Miller

“For River to discover himself in Rimbaud's life and Miller's prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in Miller's book…

— Gavin Edwards

“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying…

— Assia Djebar

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

— Lucius Accius

“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

— Anonymous

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate…

— Joshua Clover

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope