Logo
Quote by Denis Diderot
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)
Author
Denis Diderot
Read Quote

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Faith
Author
Denis Diderot
Read Quote

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Religion
Author
Denis Diderot
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Poetry

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me its like a jackhammer. – Bette Midler

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. – John Cameron

Category:
Medical

I count life just a stuff to try the souls strength on. – Robert Browning

Category:
strength

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. – Ellen DeGeneres

Category:
Christmas

It is theory that decides what can be observed. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Assumptions