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Poetry and poets

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Sandburg, Carl
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Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

1.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Chandler, Raymond

2.
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.)

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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.

7.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Lamartine, Alphonse De

8.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Horace

9.
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

10.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Graves, Robert

11.
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Fowles, John

12.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.

13.
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.

14.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert

15.
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

16.
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

17.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Sitwell, Dame Edith

18.
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

19.
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

20.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell

21.
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

22.
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.

23.
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Engle, Paul

27.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Plath, Sylvia

28.
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Fitzhugh, C.

29.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Sandburg, Carl

30.
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

31.
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.

32.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily

33.
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

34.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Hazlitt, William

35.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Ackerman, Diane

36.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace

37.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace

38.
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Massinger, Philip

39.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

40.
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Voltaire

41.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Hardy, Thomas

42.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joubert, Joseph

43.
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
Auden, W. H.

44.
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.

45.
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Field, Eugene

46.
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

47.
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Sandburg, Carl

48.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia

49.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis

50.
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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