Quotes about poe
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
poet great-poet
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. Kenneth Koch
poetry darkness rhyme
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. Seamus Heaney
poet meter
I'm a poet who can whine in meter Sherman Alexie
poet interpreter
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. Socrates
poetry age ornaments
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing John Milton
poetry may historian
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. Miguel de Cervantes
poet said maggie
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one. Nora Roberts
poetry want annoying
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
poetry saws speak
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. John Ruskin
poetry simplicity noble
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. Matthew Arnold
poet wide
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
poet feels
a poet never feels useful. May Sarton
poet clear
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.
poetry doubt quests
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes. Matsuo Basho
poet aim knows
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet. Mary Webb
poetry age
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
poetry poetry-is
Poetry is an act of peace.
poet asks
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot. Plato
poetry emotion ends
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance Philip Larkin
poetry wordsworth deprivation
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
poet never-lie
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. Philip Sidney
poetry prophet made
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers. Philip James Bailey
poetry unconscious amount
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Marianne Moore
poetry nouns verbs
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
poet pretentious disgusting
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
poetic primal
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
poet time-spent
Time spent with poets is never wasted.
poetry gaps muse
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. Mason Cooley
poetry machines bees
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
poetry deeds titles
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
poetry professors daring
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
poetry soul single-relationship
Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti