“Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.”– Andre Gide Related Quotes “Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.”– Aung San Suu Kyi “When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.”– Mario Batali “There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.”– Gyorgy Ligeti