Poet Quotes

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

I will leave no memoirs.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.