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Poetry and poets
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
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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.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
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
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.
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
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Renard, Jules
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.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Marquis, Don
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert
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
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
Frye, Northrop
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Ashbery, John
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Barrymore, John
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Fitzhugh, C.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
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
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Massinger, Philip
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia
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
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Hubbard, Elbert
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Hazlitt, William
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Hare, David
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Morley, Christopher
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Frost, Robert
Poetry is life distilled.
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace
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.
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.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell
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
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Roux, Joseph
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Fitzgerald, Robert
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Joyce, James
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Hardy, Thomas
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
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Ackerman, Diane
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
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
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
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Voltaire
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Sandburg, Carl
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