Quotes about poetry
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
poetry scribbles
We all scribble poetry. Homer
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Howard Nemerov
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. Hortense Calisher
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetry identity literature
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them. George Steiner
poetry use records
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
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 wells prose
Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound
poetry firsts break
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
poetry elements likes
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
poetry speak nectar
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. Henry Miller
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... Muriel Rukeyser
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
poetry spirit source
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poetry poetic great-poetry
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
poetry invisible visible
For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible. Nathalie Sarraute
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
Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
poetry matter comic
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
poetry imperfection faults
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance. Honore de Balzac
poetry magic literature
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. James Broughton
poetry old-fashioned
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton
poetry soul poet
A poet is a painter of the soul. Isaac Disraeli
poetry poetry-is
The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Natasha Trethewey