Letters Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

— Thomas Carlyle

All men are poets at heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

— Edith Sitwell

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

— Mary Oliver

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

— Laurence Overmire

“All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.”

— George MacDonald