Quotes about poet
poet 20th-century
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. Robert Hass
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz
poetry poetic breathe
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
poetry world might
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
poetry mind certain
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay
poetry age genius
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
poet hated
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. William Wycherley
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
poetry comfort breathe
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
poetry enough
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
poetry outcomes emotion
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
poetry disease flattering
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. William Shenstone
poet very-good critics
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
poetry facts not-interested
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. William Faulkner
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
poetry way ships
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. Tupac Shakur
poetry events moments
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. Tracy K. Smith
poetry facts given
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen
poet easier impression
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Robert Schumann
poetry odes causes
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry may fool
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
poetry poet impossibility
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
poetry purpose poetry-is
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Wallace Stevens
poetry dresses worms
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.
poet
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
poetry invisible priests
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
poetry contagious complaints
Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving
poetry odes destination
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity Voltaire
poetry poetry-is eloquence
Poetry is the eloquence of verse. William C. Bryant
poet shirk painter
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk William Butler Yeats
poetry argument quarrels
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.