Quotes about poet
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. Muriel Rukeyser
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.
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 dylan allan-poe
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Jack Prelutsky
poetry able stuff
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Ishmael Reed
poet pathetic
A poet over 30 is pathetic H. L. Mencken
poetry
Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] Horace
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.
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 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 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
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 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.
poetry realizing poetic
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage
poet lyrical duty
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. James Stephens
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