Commonplace Quote by William Bolitho

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call…

— Anonymous

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

— James Elroy Flecker

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that…

— Elizabeth Janeway

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

“For poets the wages of sin are poverty.”

— William Logan

The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is…

— Louis Ferdinand Celine