Quotes about poe
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 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 misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
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 substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
poetry matter comic
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
poetry imperfection faults
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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
I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poetry great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry realizing poetic
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage
poetry police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. Ted Hughes
poetry fossils language
Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry blithe subjects
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. Michel de Montaigne
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
poet never-lie
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. Philip Sidney
poetry prophet made
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers. Philip James Bailey
poetry poetry-is
The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Natasha Trethewey
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