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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield


Philip Zaleski

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W.H. AUDEN A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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DAVID CRYSTAL As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change...
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TAHAR BEN JELLOUN I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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EDWARD HIRSCH I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
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APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
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STEPHANE MALLARME There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep...
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LOIS LOWRY In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
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The one w...
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LAURA WHITE Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, ope...
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DEREK WALCOTT None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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PHILIP MASSINGER I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that the...
PHILIP GREENSPUN My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ...
PHILIP MORRISON I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or ...
PHILIP HAMMOND The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
PHILIP SCHAFF Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
PHILIP MASSINGER If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good ...
PHILIP JOHNSON I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
PHILIP JOHNSON Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial societ...
PHILIP GUSTON What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their ...
PHILIP KAUFMAN In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, ...
PHILIP GIBBS I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before ...
PHILIP TREACY A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
PRINCE PHILIP Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
PHILIP JOHNSON