Quotes about poetry
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
poetry saws blind
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Don Marquis
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry verses wrote
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. Sophie Hannah
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I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
poetry ridiculous seems understand
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous Galway Kinnell
poetry work
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Ed Westwick
poetry
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright
poetry rats terriers
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A. E. Housman
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips
poetry science
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare
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My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well. Jess Walter
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
poetry realizing poetic
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage
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
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. Edward Dahlberg
poetry together pulpit
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. Edith Hamilton
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. Eminem
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
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
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry speech
The poetry of speech. Lord Byron
poetry mathematical fourier
Fourier is a mathematical poem. Lord Kelvin
poetry creation poet
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. Mahatma Gandhi