Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. – T. S. Eliot
Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. – Juan Goytisolo
You know how old I am? Im so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. Thats how old I am. – Rush Limbaugh
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. – Tony Garza
