Argument Quote by Salman Rushdie

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop…

— Salman Rushdie

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace,…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“the problem that I’ve found with most poets that I have known is that they’ve never had an 8 hour job and there is…

— Charles Bukowski

“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something is called…

— Bashō Matsuo