Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. – Eugenio Montale Category: Poetry
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau Category: Poetry
I dont know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. – Zona Gale Category: Poetry
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley Category: Civilization
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama Category: Friendship
