Quotes about poe
poetry poet grownups
There are poets and there are grownups. Jean Cocteau
poet
Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini
poetry wells prose
Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound
poetry firsts break
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
poet not-interested
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
poetry elements likes
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
poetry scribbles
We all scribble poetry. Homer
poetic verses
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. Howard Nemerov
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. Hortense Calisher
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace
poet madmen fellows
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
poet carriages rhythm
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
poetry
I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry seems
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. Caitriona Balfe
poems printed title took yorker
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
poem tune
Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem. Roger McGuinn
poetry
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. Taylor Momsen
poet lays values
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Norton
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... Muriel Rukeyser
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
poetry spirit source
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poet
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. Jules Verne
poetry poetic great-poetry
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
poetry invisible visible
For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible. Nathalie Sarraute
poet pathetic
A poet over 30 is pathetic H. L. Mencken
poetry
Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance. Honore de Balzac
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]