Motivational Quotes

Poetry and poets

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

- Roux, Joseph

Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

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

Renard, Jules

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

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.

Every old poem is sacred.

Horace

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Sitwell, Dame Edith

A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

Wilde, Oscar

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joubert, Joseph

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Frost, Robert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Hazlitt, William

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Poets are born, not paid.

Mizner, Addison

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

Voltaire

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

Graves, Robert

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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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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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.

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

Plath, Sylvia

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

Frost, Robert

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.)

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Fitzgerald, Robert

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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''

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Roux, Joseph

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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.

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

Horace

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Diderot, Denis