Quotes about poetry
poetry poetic breathe
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
poetry world might
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
poetry mind certain
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay
poetry age genius
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
poetry comfort breathe
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
poetry enough
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
poetry outcomes emotion
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
poetry disease flattering
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. William Shenstone
poetry facts not-interested
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. William Faulkner
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
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 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 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.
poetry contagious complaints
Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving
poetry odes destination
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity Voltaire
poetry poetry-is eloquence
Poetry is the eloquence of verse. William C. Bryant
poetry argument quarrels
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats
poetry limits poet
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
poetry sculpture painting
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. Walter Savage Landor
poetry remember poetry-is
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. William Hazlitt
poetry house made
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. Vladimir Mayakovsky
poetry poet beacons-of-light
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Virginia Woolf
poetry achieve music-is
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
poetry literature spirit
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.