Quotes about poet
poetry achieve music-is
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music. Wallace Stevens
poetry literature spirit
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry attention definitions
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
poetry ends lost
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin
poetry adjectives
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. W. H. Auden
poet said reader
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
poet happens
Poetry makes nothing happen.
poetry vineyards farming
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
poetry poet humiliated
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
poetic poet makers
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
poet
Even a poet cannot get everything right. Ursula K. Le Guin
poetry warning today
All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen
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.
poetry grace charity
Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. Herman Melville
poetry literature world
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
poetry littles poetic
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. Henry David Thoreau
poetry age honey
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
poetry poet blithe
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
poetry poet labor
We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
poetry mankind mysticism
Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
poetry criticism taste
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
poetry doubt needs
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.
poet verge
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
poetry healthy speech
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
poetry poet mankind
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
poetry misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
poetry-and-music world singers
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer. Jean Houston
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Gaston Bachelard
poet
We must listen to poets.