Best Quotes about Poetry and poets
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Cocteau, Jean
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
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
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
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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''
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Wilde, Oscar
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
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
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Voltaire
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Hare, David
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
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Frost, Robert
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Sitwell, Dame Edith
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Scott, Sir Walter
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert
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.
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Massinger, Philip
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Sandburg, Carl
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily
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
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
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire
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
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 journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Sandburg, Carl
Poets are born, not paid.
Mizner, Addison
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Fitzhugh, C.
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
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.
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
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Joyce, James
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
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.
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Thoreau, Henry David
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.
Baudelaire, Charles
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Flaubert, Gustave
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
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Sandburg, Carl
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Stedman, Captain J. G.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Fitzgerald, Robert
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