More From Andre Gide
- "Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
- "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
- "Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
More In Poetry
- "I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."― Howard Nemerov
- "The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."― Gilbert Murray
- "I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet."― Justin Townes Earle