Quotes about poetry
poetry language form
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad. Peter Porter
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
poetry musical
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Thomas Carlyle
poetry strings parades
Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. Linda Hogan
poetry good-man through-the-looking-glass
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. Lewis Carroll
poetry literature should
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
poetry letters becoming
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
poetry raw-materials trends
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
poetry very-good deliberate
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
poetry pastime
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. Natalie Goldberg
poetry fit prime
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. Robert Burns
poetry difficult poetry-is
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. Robert Browning
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 great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry tests genuine
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
poetry
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. Rumi
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
poetry cosmos poetry-is
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem. Vanna Bonta
poetry sanctuary spirituality
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
poetry
The true poem rests between the words.
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz
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 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