Quotes about poetry
poetry very-good deliberate
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 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 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 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.
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.
poetry ends lost
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin
poetry adjectives
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. W. H. Auden
poetry vineyards farming
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
poetry poet humiliated
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
poetry warning today
All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen
poetry contagious complaints
Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving