Best poet & literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.”

Art Culture Literature Cities Poet Musician Intellectual Western Artistic Western Culture Kabul

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.”

Ifs Years Looks Matter Political Literature Quality Heard Poet Involved Commitment Winner Prize Nobel Nobel Prize Egyptian Great Poet Quality Work Nobel Prize Winners

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called beat poets, Allan Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso among them. The poems of Ogden Nash also inspired me, having first seen his work while browsing in a library when I was in the sixth grade.”

Art Reading Literature Enjoy College Poet Inspired Library

Author:Douglas Florian

“There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.”

Writing Art Guy Values Literature Wonderful Poet Terrible Artistic Meaningless Great Work English Literature

Author:Gary Giddins

“Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?”

Values Literature Moral Poet Train Code Prize Nobel Prize Close Friends Confirmation

Author:Liao Yiwu

“The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.”

People Writing Art Literature Poet Achievement Police Promotion Police State

Author:Elliott Colla

“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”

Eye Literature Poet Notebook

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

Writing Poetry Literature Poet Prose Poetic

Book:Intimate Journals

Source: Intimate Journals

“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”

Ifs Literature Force Moral Poet Objectives Poetic Pursued Objectivity

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”

Want Happens Political Literature Poet Things Happen Accomplished Make Things Happen

Author:Howard Nemerov

“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.”

Literature Known Alive Poet England Frost New England Icy

Author:Howard Nemerov

“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”

Artist Culture Literature Individual Term Wealth Quality Military Poet Materials Civilization Achievement Philosopher Prosperity Representatives Military Power Material Wealth

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.”

Long Ends Literature Black Known Style Poet Painter Ties Sculptors Black Tie

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.”

Way Writing Happens Literature My Own Clear Style Poet Decided Experiments

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

Two Literature Lines Walks Poet Letters Odd Phrases Poetic Verses Biographies My Biography

Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Poet Quotes

Related topics

Poet Quotes