Quotes about poe
poetry poetry-is
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. Marie Corelli
poet chosen subjects
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
poetry saying
I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry John Cage
poem wrote
The first poem I ever wrote was terrible, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
poetry poetry-is
The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Natasha Trethewey
poetry sentences prose
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poetry teenagers wrote
And I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Stephen Colbert
poetry drug mere
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar
poet theory feels
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. John Ciardi
poetry
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama
poet 20th-century
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. Robert Hass
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz
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.
poet hated
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. William Wycherley
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
poetry comfort breathe
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
poetry enough
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
poetry outcomes emotion
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
poetry disease flattering
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. William Shenstone
poet very-good critics
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
poetry facts not-interested
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. William Faulkner
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
poetry way ships
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. Tupac Shakur
poetry events moments
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. Tracy K. Smith
poetry facts given
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen
poet easier impression
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Robert Schumann
poetry odes causes
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. Samuel Taylor Coleridge