Quotes about poetry
poetry attention definitions
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. Ted Hughes
poetry fossils language
Language is fossil Poetry.
poetry shepherds lambs
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
poetry firsts finest
The finest poetry was first experience.
poetry argument
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
poetry mind poet
The true poem is the poet's mind.
poetry grows
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. Robert Penn Warren
poetry elegance revelations
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Robert Fitzgerald
poetry likes odd
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd Walt Whitman
poetry pastime
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. Natalie Goldberg
poetry musical
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Thomas Carlyle
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
poetry way lost
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Robert Frost
poetry renewal settings
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
poetry emotion found
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. Thomas More
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 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 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 joy three
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco