"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild." ― Denis Diderot Topic(s): Poetry More From Denis Diderot "The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find." "If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal." "It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all." More In Poetry "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding."― Harry Mathews "Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."― John Drinkwater "I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."― Jacques Derrida