Intellectual freedom Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

Poetry is a break for freedom.

— David Whyte

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“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

The freedom of poetic license.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.”

— John R. Dallas Jr

“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.”

— John Bagnell Bury

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”

— Wallace Stegner

“Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.”

— C. Kennedy

“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.”

— Wendy Higgins