Quotes about poe
poetry may fool
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry poet impossibility
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
poetry purpose poetry-is
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Wallace Stevens
poetry dresses worms
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.
poet
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
poetry invisible priests
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
poetry contagious complaints
Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving
poetry odes destination
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity Voltaire
poetry poetry-is eloquence
Poetry is the eloquence of verse. William C. Bryant
poet shirk painter
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk William Butler Yeats
poetry argument quarrels
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
poetry limits poet
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
poetry sculpture painting
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. Walter Savage Landor
poet eldest
God, eldest of Poets. William Watson
poetry remember poetry-is
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. William Hazlitt
poetry house made
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. Vladimir Mayakovsky
poetry poet beacons-of-light
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Virginia Woolf
poet contemporary
The poet is always our contemporary.
poet journalist
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. Werner Herzog
poet found
No place is a place until it has found its poet. Wallace Stegner
poetry achieve music-is
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
poetry literature spirit
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.
poetry attention definitions
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
poetry
Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry mind tablets
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
poetry
Every word was once a poem.
poetry inspire
Only poetry inspires poetry.
poetic mathematical homeopathy
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic. Scarlett Thomas
poetry police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. Ted Hughes
poetry fossils language
Language is fossil Poetry.
poetry shepherds lambs
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .