Quotes about poe
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] Horace
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 pathetic
A poet over 30 is pathetic H. L. Mencken
poet proud
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago. Richard Daley
poetry subject war
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
poetry refusal
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. Seamus Heaney
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
poetry
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
poetry
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
poetry
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
poet teacher time
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz
poetry work
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Ed Westwick
poetry
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright
poet traces
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char
poets since
But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love. William Shakespeare
poet
But I was a poet before I was an actor. Casper Dien
poetry rats terriers
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A. E. Housman
poetry science
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
poetry
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
poetry promote
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
poetry
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
poetry
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. Edward Hirsch
poetry suburban teenager
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
poetry
As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
poetry ridiculous seems understand
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous Galway Kinnell
poet painter great-poet
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. Claude Monet
poetry remember enough
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. E. W. Howe
poetry
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. Andrew Motion