Quotes about poe
poet orators
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. Marcus Tullius Cicero
poetry excellence madness
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
poetry poet
There were poets before Homer.
poet conceit orators
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
poet
who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? Margaret Cavendish
poetry verbs looks
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. Mary Oliver
poetry way empty
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
poet young written
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. Philip Levine
poetry unleashing poetry-is
Poetry is good for unleashing images. Paula Rego
poetry police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. Ted Hughes
poetry fossils language
Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry shepherds lambs
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
poetry firsts finest
The finest poetry was first experience.
poetry argument
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
poetry mind poet
The true poem is the poet's mind.
poetry pastime
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. Natalie Goldberg
poet minors knows
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. Leonard Cohen
poetry burning olive-branches
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
poet
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead. Langston Hughes
poetry strings parades
Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. Linda Hogan
poetry language form
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad. Peter Porter
poetry
Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
poetry mind tablets
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
poetry
Every word was once a poem.
poetry inspire
Only poetry inspires poetry.
poetry good-man through-the-looking-glass
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. Lewis Carroll
poet chairs
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. Karl Shapiro
poetry literature should
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
poetry letters becoming
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
poetry raw-materials trends
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
poetry very-good deliberate
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
poetry firsts acorns
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Percy Bysshe Shelley
poetic psychologist obvious
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. Lytton Strachey