Poetry Quote by Clifton Fadiman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

“Gretel in Darkness:”

“What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,”

“...if you do not even understand what words say,”

“I believe”

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”