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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” Dale Carnegie

“What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.” Hermann Broch

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.” George Sand

“Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.” Richard Bach

“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.” Richard Rosen

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” Don Marquis

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Plato

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.” Jean Cocteau

“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Horace

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.” Gustave Flaubert

“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.” John Ashbery

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” Robert Graves

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” Vladimir Nabokov

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.” Cicero