Quotes about poetry
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 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 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.
poetry misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Howard Nemerov
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace
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
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 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 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.
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 work
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Ed Westwick
poetry promote
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. Seamus Heaney
poetry suburban teenager
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. Edward Hirsch
poetry
As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
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