Quotes about poetry
poetry wordsworth deprivation
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Philip Larkin
poetry sentences prose
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
poetry drug mere
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar
poetry want annoying
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
poetry teenagers wrote
And I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Stephen Colbert
poetry prophet made
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers. Philip James Bailey
poetry unconscious amount
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Marianne Moore
poetry nouns verbs
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
poetry great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry unleashing poetry-is
Poetry is good for unleashing images. Paula Rego
poetry language form
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad. Peter Porter
poetry police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. Ted Hughes
poetry fossils language
Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry shepherds lambs
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
poetry firsts finest
The finest poetry was first experience.
poetry argument
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
poetry mind poet
The true poem is the poet's mind.
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
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.
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
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
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.