All Quotes

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
‐‐ Stendhal

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
‐‐ Tony Judt

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.
‐‐ Jay Alan Sekulow

The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
‐‐ Ira Glass

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
‐‐ Nancy Cartwright

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.
‐‐ Judy Biggert

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
‐‐ Randy Neugebauer

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
‐‐ Patricia Schroeder

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
‐‐ Mahmoud Abbas

The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

The plus size movement is not just about fashion; it's about body image, and if we're doing a shoot, they won't retouch us at all. That's the cool thing: there's no retouching at all because we want to give girls the truth, not a fabrication.
‐‐ Hayley Hasselhoff

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
‐‐ John Burnside

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
‐‐ Charles Olson

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
‐‐ Robert Penn Warren

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
‐‐ Ben Okri

The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
‐‐ Billy Collins

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
‐‐ John Ashbery

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.
‐‐ Taylor Mali

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
‐‐ Aristotle

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
‐‐ Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
‐‐ Eugenio Montale

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
‐‐ Saint-John Perse

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
‐‐ A. R. Ammons

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
‐‐ Paul Verlaine

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
‐‐ Lionel Trilling

The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
‐‐ Jacques Maritain

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
‐‐ Steven T. Katz