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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.
- Ginsberg, Allen
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Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

1.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily

2.
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

3.
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.

4.
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

5.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Mallarme, Stephane

6.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Hare, David

7.
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Sandburg, Carl

8.
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

9.
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Massinger, Philip

10.
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Voltaire

11.
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

12.
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''

13.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Engle, Paul

14.
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

15.
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Cocteau, Jean

16.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Lamartine, Alphonse De

17.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Frost, Robert

18.
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

19.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Roux, Joseph

20.
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

21.
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

22.
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.

23.
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

24.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Hare, David

25.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace

26.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Sandburg, Carl

27.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.

28.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

29.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Joyce, James

30.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Stedman, Captain J. G.

31.
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

32.
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

33.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William

34.
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.

35.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Renard, Jules

36.
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

37.
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.

38.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

39.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Sandburg, Carl

40.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Sitwell, Dame Edith

41.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Farquhar, George

42.
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

43.
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert

44.
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Wilde, Oscar

45.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis

46.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Marquis, Don

48.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Barrymore, John

49.
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
Brodsky, Joseph

50.
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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