Quotes about poetry
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
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 Leonard Cohen
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
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
poetry atmosphere may
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me ... Lucy Larcom
poetry generations poetry-is
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time. Louise Bogan
poetry literature surprise
Poetry surprises us with what we already know. John Fuller
poetry brutal humans
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. John Millington Synge
poetry together violence
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... John Berger
poetry myrtle ruins
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? George Crabbe
poetry speech
The poetry of speech. Lord Byron
poetry mathematical fourier
Fourier is a mathematical poem. Lord Kelvin
poetry creation poet
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. Mahatma Gandhi
poetry apotheosis poetry-is
Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment. Madame de Stael
poetry doe asking
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poetry littles lyrical
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
poetry world faults
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.