Quotes about poe
poetry together violence
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... John Berger
poetry myrtle ruins
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? George Crabbe
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. Edward Dahlberg
poetry together pulpit
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. Edith Hamilton
poetry
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. Eminem
poetry merit praise
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti
poet company
Oh, what company good poets are!
poetry metaphor algebra
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. Jose Ortega y Gasset
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poet inventor
A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. Jorge Luis Borges
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry speech
The poetry of speech. Lord Byron
poetry mathematical fourier
Fourier is a mathematical poem. Lord Kelvin
poetry creation poet
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. Mahatma Gandhi
poetry poet
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
poetic literal primaries
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. Northrop Frye
poetic-license giving doe
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. Orhan Pamuk
poetry suggestions infinite
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
poetry elements saturn
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.
poet starving
The starving poet business is no good nowadays. Henrik Ibsen
poetry soul judgment
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
poetry doe asking
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poetry littles lyrical
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
poetry world faults
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
poems
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poetry tone melancholy
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. Edgar Allan Poe
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poet sad
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet Alphonse Lamartine
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.