Quotes about poetry
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.
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
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.
poetry firsts acorns
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Percy Bysshe Shelley
poetry verbs looks
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. Mary Oliver
poetry way empty
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
poetry mind world
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us. Vernon Lee
poetry way lost
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Robert Frost
poetry renewal settings
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
poetry emotion found
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. Thomas More
poetry likes odd
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd Walt Whitman
poetry facts given
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen
poetry odes causes
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry may fool
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
poetry poet impossibility
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
poetry way ships
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. Tupac Shakur
poetry events moments
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. Tracy K. Smith
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
poetry grows
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. Robert Penn Warren
poetry purpose poetry-is
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Wallace Stevens
poetry dresses worms
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.
poetry invisible priests
The poet is the priest of the invisible.