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Poetry and poets
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.
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Barrymore, John
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Hubbard, Elbert
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.
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.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Sandburg, Carl
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Plath, Sylvia
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
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Hare, David
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.
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
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Fowles, John
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.)
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Horace
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Frost, Robert
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Ashbery, John
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Cocteau, Jean
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joubert, Joseph
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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Hare, David
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.
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
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Farquhar, George
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Flaubert, Gustave
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
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Sandburg, Carl
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.
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
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire
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 man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Marquis, Don
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Scott, Sir Walter
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Lamartine, Alphonse De
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Renard, Jules
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
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
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Chandler, Raymond
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Hardy, Thomas
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
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
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell
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