Quotes about poe
poet carriages rhythm
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. Friedrich Nietzsche
poet modern modern-day
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare Eminem
poetry fool rhyming
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. Jack London
poet
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are. Jack Prelutsky
poet lays
I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead. Jack Kerouac
poetry
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well. Jess Walter
poem sing
We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.
poetry doe nouns
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry. Gertrude Stein
poetry grace charity
Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. Herman Melville
poetry literature world
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
poetry age honey
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey. Henry David Thoreau
poetry poet labor
We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
poetry mankind mysticism
Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
poetry criticism taste
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
poet verge
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
poetry misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
poetry scribbles
We all scribble poetry. Homer
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Howard Nemerov
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. Hortense Calisher
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace
poet madmen fellows
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
poetry
Any time is the time to make a poem.
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance. Honore de Balzac
poet dylan allan-poe
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
poetry able stuff
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Ishmael Reed
poetry old-fashioned
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton
poetry soul poet
A poet is a painter of the soul. Isaac Disraeli
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
poetry matter comic
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
poetry imperfection faults
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
poet proud
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago. Richard Daley
poetry prior published
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. Robert Adamson
poetry poet born
Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner