Quotes about poetry
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 saws blind
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Don Marquis
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 should haiku
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. Anne Bancroft
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
poetry way lost
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Robert Frost
poetry renewal settings
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
poetry musical
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Thomas Carlyle
poetry great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry poetic breathe
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
poetry world might
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
poetry mind certain
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay
poetry age genius
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
poetry mind world
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us. Vernon Lee
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
poetry cosmos poetry-is
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem. Vanna Bonta
poetry sanctuary spirituality
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
poetry
The true poem rests between the words.
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz