Quotes about poe
poet humans
Poets sing our human music for us. Carol Ann Duffy
poet rapture prose
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Charles Churchill
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poet accepting critics
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. Edmund Clarence Stedman
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
poetry
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Seamus Heaney
poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
poems
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
poetry promote
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
poetry
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
poetry
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. Edward Hirsch
poetry suburban teenager
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
poet finest
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Annie Dillard
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry toenails poetry-is
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Dylan Thomas
poetry gaps thunder
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
poet ifs
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. Countee Cullen
poetry trying literature
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. Clive James
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry doe veils
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
poetic-license people poetic
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Christopher Plummer
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry should haiku
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. Anne Bancroft
poetry bears weight
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
poetry saws blind
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Don Marquis
poet painter great-poet
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. Claude Monet