Broken Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own…

— John Updike

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come…

— Annie Proulx

“The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which…

— Horace Mann

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“he dragged his words painfully from the poets”

— Earl Derr Biggers

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and…

— Ben Okri

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen