Difficult Quote by William Carlos Williams

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

— Germaine Greer

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

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

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

— E.M. Forster