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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- Auden, W. H.
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Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Landor, Walter Savage

2.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Flaubert, Gustave

3.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

4.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Ackerman, Diane

5.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Frost, Robert

6.
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Kennedy, John F.

7.
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Byron, Lord

8.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.

9.
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
White, Elwyn Brooks

10.
Poets are born, not paid.
Mizner, Addison

11.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Hazlitt, William

12.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Frost, Robert

13.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Roux, Joseph

14.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Barrymore, John

15.
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Fitzhugh, C.

16.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
Artaud, Antonin

17.
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?
Byron, Lord

18.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Fry, Christopher

19.
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
Fenton, James

20.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Graves, Robert

21.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

22.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell

23.
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Voltaire

24.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily

25.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace

26.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

27.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Fitzgerald, Robert

28.
Poetry is life distilled.
Brooks, Gwendolyn

29.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.
Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
Eliot, T. S.

31.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Sandburg, Carl

33.
The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Doren, Mark Van

34.
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
Nisker, Wes ''Scoop''

35.
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Thoreau, Henry David

36.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire

37.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Stedman, Captain J. G.

38.
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.

39.
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Fowles, John

40.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis

41.
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace

42.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

43.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Sandburg, Carl

44.
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.
Auden, W. H.

45.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Hubbard, Elbert

46.
There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.
Mallarme, Stephane

47.
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Sandburg, Carl

48.
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert

49.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

50.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
Bacon, Francis


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