Quotes about poe
poet really-great creatures
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. Oscar Wilde
poetry touching charm
Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Lucretius
poetry
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. Taylor Momsen
poetry speak nectar
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. Henry Miller
poetic-license dying understood
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith
poet
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry prose
Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer
poetry-and-music tone sound
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
poetry criticism tailors
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
poet satisfied
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. Jeanette Winterson
poetic-license novelists poetic
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
poet lays
I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead. Jack Kerouac
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
poet carriages rhythm
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poet modern modern-day
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare Eminem
poetry attention lines
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is
The poetry is myself.
poetry fool rhyming
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. Jack London
poet
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are. Jack Prelutsky
poetry style morality
For a poet, style is the only morality. Jennifer Stone
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
poetry
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. Mark Strand
poetry feels anything-is-possible
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
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
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 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