Quotes about poe
poetry littles poetic
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. Henry David Thoreau
poetry age honey
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
poetry poet blithe
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
poetry poet labor
We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
poetry mankind mysticism
Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
poetry criticism taste
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
poetry doubt needs
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.
poet verge
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
poetry healthy speech
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
poetry poet mankind
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
poetry misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
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
poetry magic literature
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. James Broughton
poetic methodology discourse
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida
poetry old-fashioned
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton
poetry soul poet
A poet is a painter of the soul. Isaac Disraeli
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-and-music world singers
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer. Jean Houston
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Gaston Bachelard
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
poetry style morality
For a poet, style is the only morality. Jennifer Stone
poetic-license dying understood
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
poetry identity literature
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them. George Steiner
poetry use records
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
poetry indispensable poetry-is
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Jean Cocteau
poetry poetic invention
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.