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Poetry and poets

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.)

Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

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.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Horace

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

Baudelaire, Charles

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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 impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Bodenheim, Maxwell

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Auden, W. H.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

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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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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Eliot, T. S.

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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Joyce, James

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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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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.

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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

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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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Poetry is life distilled.

Brooks, Gwendolyn

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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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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 is what is lost in translation.

Frost, Robert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Sitwell, Dame Edith

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Frost, Robert

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Sandburg, Carl

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

Horace

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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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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

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

Voltaire

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

Graves, Robert

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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horace

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plath, Sylvia

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Roux, Joseph

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