Equal Quote by Walther von der Vogelweide

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

— Boris Pasternak

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

— Baldur von Schirach

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv.…

— Anonymous

“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not made otherwise—for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his…

— Paul Celan

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

— David Lodge

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple