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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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Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

1.
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

2.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
Eliot, T. S.

4.
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Thoreau, Henry David

5.
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.

6.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.

11.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Chandler, Raymond

12.
Poets are born, not paid.
Mizner, Addison

13.
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

14.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Farquhar, George

15.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Marquis, Don

16.
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

17.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell

18.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Horace

19.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Sitwell, Dame Edith

20.
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

21.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Hare, David

22.
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Field, Eugene

23.
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

24.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily

26.
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Wilde, Oscar

27.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert

28.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia

29.
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

30.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Lowell, James Russell

31.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

32.
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

33.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace

34.
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Morley, Christopher

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
Poetry is life distilled.
Brooks, Gwendolyn

38.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William

39.
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

40.
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.

41.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Engle, Paul

42.
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

43.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

44.
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.

45.
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Cocteau, Jean

46.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Ackerman, Diane

47.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Flaubert, Gustave

48.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Hare, David

49.
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

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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