Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
Always be a poet, even in prose.
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are... →
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them... →
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
Aimee Bender
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
William Rose Benet
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very... →
Roberto Benigni
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if... →
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Jose Bergamin
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
John Berger