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Poetry and poets

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

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.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Cocteau, Jean

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

Drew, Elizabeth

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Sandburg, Carl

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Hare, David

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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Cocteau, Jean

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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Bodenheim, Maxwell

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

Aristotle

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Flaubert, Gustave

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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Sandburg, Carl

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Poets are born, not paid.

Mizner, Addison

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Keats, John

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

Voltaire

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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Stedman, Captain J. G.

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Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Engle, Paul

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Frost, Robert

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Auden, W. H.

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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Field, Eugene

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Ashbery, John

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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Eco, Umberto

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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.

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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Horace

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

Graves, Robert

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Sandburg, Carl

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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

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Frost, Robert

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A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Horace

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

Diderot, Denis

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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Horace

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Joyce, James

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Plath, Sylvia

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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Farquhar, George

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Woolf, Virginia

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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Lowell, James Russell

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Marquis, Don

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Chandler, Raymond

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