Danger Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo

“The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry…

— John Berryman

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

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

— Anonymous

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“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

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

— Derek Walcott

“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

“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