Quotes about poet
poetry soul judgment
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. Henrik Ibsen
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry poet
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
poetic literal primaries
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. Northrop Frye
poetic-license giving doe
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. Orhan Pamuk
poetry gaps muse
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. Mason Cooley
poetry machines bees
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
poetry deeds titles
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
poetry professors daring
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
poetry soul single-relationship
Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti
poetry poetry-is
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. Marie Corelli
poet chosen subjects
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poet
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. James M. Barrie
poetry darkness rhyme
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. Seamus Heaney
poet meter
I'm a poet who can whine in meter Sherman Alexie
poetry literature surprise
Poetry surprises us with what we already know. John Fuller
poetry brutal humans
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. John Millington Synge
poetry together violence
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... John Berger
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
poetic psychologist obvious
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. Lytton Strachey
poet
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
poetry atmosphere may
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me ... Lucy Larcom
poetry generations poetry-is
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time. Louise Bogan
poetry strings parades
Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. Linda Hogan
poetry good-man through-the-looking-glass
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. Lewis Carroll
poet chairs
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. Karl Shapiro
poetry literature should
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
poetry letters becoming
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
poetry raw-materials trends
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
poetry very-good deliberate
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
poetry checks priests
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. John Dryden
poetry heroic human-nature
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.