„No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job…. Poetry.. remains one person talking to another…. no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet“
— Bob Dylan
„Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.“
— Michel Foucault
„arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.“
— Dale Carnegie
„A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.“
— Jane Austen