Poetry Quote by Rob Bell

I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I…

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

— Harry Essex

“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12”

— Aristophanes

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it…

— Anonymous

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in…

— James Fenton

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

— Seamus Heaney

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

— James Russell Lowell

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

— D.A. Botta

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene