Quotes by Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous on >>

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. >>

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinker >>

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one' >>

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poe >>

This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]

Voltaire