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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. — Wallace Stevens
- Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. — Wallace Stevens
- In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. — Wallace Stevens