Quotes about poe
poet invention conscious
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poet sad
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet Alphonse Lamartine
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips
poetry
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poems
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
poetry trying literature
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. Clive James
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poet scientist
Scientist alone is true poet. Allen Ginsberg
poetry roles manipulation
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
poetry toenails poetry-is
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Dylan Thomas
poetry gaps thunder
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry bears weight
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
poet finest
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Annie Dillard
poet persons
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems. Robert Frost
poetry emotion found
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. Thomas More
poetry tests genuine
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot