#poe

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#artist #blessed #blessed be #child #does

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. ↗

— Aristide Maillol

#express #i #i am #myself #poet

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#ideas #make #poem #words #you

Many of my poems are not sexual. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#poems #sexual

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. ↗

— Paul Celan

#poetry #sort

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

#come #condition #forth #him #himself

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. ↗

— James Martineau

#language #more #music #poetry #possible

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#because #days #favourite #hath #poem

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable