Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert J. Nock

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

H. L. Mencken

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

George Orwell

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Winston Churchill

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Richard Daley

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Philip Schultz

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

Ogden Nash

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Dave Evans

Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Dave Attell

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

Evan Dando

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.