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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
- Fowles, John
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Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

1.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

2.
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.

3.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire

4.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

5.
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life.
Eliot, T. S.

6.
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.

7.
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

8.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Renard, Jules

9.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Plath, Sylvia

10.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily

12.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Sandburg, Carl

13.
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a read, commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
Brodsky, Joseph

14.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell

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

16.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Lowell, James Russell

17.
We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
Eliot, T. S.

18.
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
Frye, Northrop

19.
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

20.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert

21.
Poets are born, not paid.
Mizner, Addison

22.
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
Dylan, Bob

23.
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Thoreau, Henry David

24.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Roux, Joseph

25.
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Massinger, Philip

26.
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Morley, Christopher

27.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Graves, Robert

28.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Farquhar, George

29.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Ginsberg, Allen

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Engle, Paul

34.
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

35.
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.

36.
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

37.
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
Frye, Northrop

38.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Marquis, Don

39.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis

40.
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Field, Eugene

41.
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Fowles, John

42.
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
Auden, W. H.

43.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Hubbard, Elbert

44.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

45.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Ashbery, John

46.
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

47.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Hardy, Thomas

48.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

50.
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Cocteau, Jean


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