Quotes about poetry
poetry poet
There were poets before Homer. Marcus Tullius Cicero
poetry needs world
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Patricia MacLachlan
poetry able stuff
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Ishmael Reed
poetry darkness rhyme
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. Seamus Heaney
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 want annoying
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
poetry saws speak
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. John Ruskin
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 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 gaps muse
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. Mason Cooley
poetry machines bees
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
poetry deeds titles
Title deeds generally outlast poems.
poetry professors daring
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
poetry soul single-relationship
Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti
poetry poetry-is
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. Marie Corelli
poetry saying
I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry John Cage
poetry poetry-is
The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Natasha Trethewey
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 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 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 drug mere
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar
poetry
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz