Duty Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

— Salman Rushdie

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones.”

— Mary Shelley

“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

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato