Quotes about poetry
poetry criticism tailors
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide. Franz Grillparzer
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
poetry style morality
For a poet, style is the only morality. Jennifer Stone
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry attention lines
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. Gwendolyn Brooks
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
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
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 littles poetic
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. Henry David Thoreau
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.
poetry poet blithe
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
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.
poetry doubt needs
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.
poetry healthy speech
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
poetry poet mankind
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
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
poetry magic literature
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. James Broughton
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 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.]