Angels Quote by Roberto Hogue

“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous…

— Claudio Magris

“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music.”

— Vonnie Davis

“If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me…

— Roman Payne

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous,…

— Joseph Heller

“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.”

— Atticus Poetry

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

— Anthony S. Maulucci

“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky