J. D. Salinger Quotes

I love scarves and hats and coats. I love it.

I think layering is key for fall along with a really colorful scarf to bring spiciness to the outfit.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

I just put anything on my back. I take what I have on hand.

All men are poets at heart.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Poets tell many lies.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.