Forever Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

— Chinua Achebe

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all…

— Robert Hass

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

— Theodore Dwight Weld

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

— Samuel Johnson

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

— Edith Sitwell