Quotes about poetry
poetry doe nouns
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry. Gertrude Stein
poetry poetry-is
The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Natasha Trethewey
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poetry teenagers wrote
And I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Stephen Colbert
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
poetry
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. Eminem
poetry poet
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
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 has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry indispensable poetry-is
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Jean Cocteau
poetry poetic invention
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
poetry poet grownups
There are poets and there are grownups.
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 age ornaments
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing John Milton
poetry may historian
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. Miguel de Cervantes
poetry drug mere
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar
poetry simplicity noble
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. Matthew Arnold
poetry doubt quests
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes. Matsuo Basho
poetry age
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
poetry poetry-is
Poetry is an act of peace.
poetry emotion ends
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance Philip Larkin
poetry wordsworth deprivation
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
poetry sentences prose
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler
poetry
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. Mark Strand
poetry feels anything-is-possible
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
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 want annoying
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Nassim Nicholas Taleb