"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words." ― Anatole Broyard Topic(s): Poetry More From Anatole Broyard "We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars." "To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding." More In Poetry "The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."― Robert Morgan "But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."― Alfred de Vigny "If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’"― A. R. Ammons