Ends Quote by Robert Penn Warren

The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what…

— Matthew Zapruder

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of…

— Carol Ann Duffy

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused…

— Louise Bogan

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by…

— Neil Gaiman

“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up a book…

— Trista Mateer

“And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't be together.…

— Nescio

“WITHOUT END There is no final poem, just as there was no original poem, and if there was a tree that held a knowledge…

— Vievee Francis