Quotes about poe
poetry gaps muse
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. Mason Cooley
poetry machines bees
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
poetry deeds titles
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
poetry professors daring
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
poetry needs world
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Patricia MacLachlan
poet really-great creatures
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. Oscar Wilde
poetry touching charm
Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Lucretius
poetry blithe subjects
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. Michel de Montaigne
poet genre americana
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre Michael Nesmith
poet poets useful
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
poetry
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
poetry
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Juan Felipe Herrera
poetry
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
poet public wandered
He was a poet who serendipitously wandered into public life.
poetry
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poet words
If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words. Johnny Pesky
poetry-and-music world singers
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer. Jean Houston
poetry elements likes
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular. Ezra Pound
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith
poetry use records
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'. George Steiner
poetry indispensable poetry-is
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Jean Cocteau
poetry poet grownups
There are poets and there are grownups.
poetry speak nectar
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. Henry Miller
poet
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry prose
Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer
poetry-and-music tone sound
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
poetry criticism tailors
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
poet satisfied
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. Jeanette Winterson
poetry style morality
For a poet, style is the only morality. Jennifer Stone
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.