Quotes about poet
poetry cosmos poetry-is
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem. Vanna Bonta
poetry sanctuary spirituality
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
poetry
The true poem rests between the words.
poet best-performance performances
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. Utah Phillips
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz
poetry pastime
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. Natalie Goldberg
poetic-license historical lists
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. Steven Spielberg
poet
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into. Sylvia Plath
poetry
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. Rumi
poetry musical
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Thomas Carlyle
poet poetry-by-famous-poets has-beens
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud
poetry fit prime
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. Robert Burns
poetry difficult poetry-is
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. Robert Browning
poetry tests genuine
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
poet units sentences
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. Susan Sontag
poetry
Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry mind tablets
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
poetry
Every word was once a poem.
poetry inspire
Only poetry inspires poetry.
poetic mathematical homeopathy
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic. Scarlett Thomas
poetry
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips
poets simply words
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words John Fowles
poetry seems
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. Caitriona Balfe
poetry
I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
poetry joy three
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco
poetry literature outcomes
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
poetic creation something-new
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be? Paolo Bacigalupi