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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
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Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

1.
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

2.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Stedman, Captain J. G.

3.
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

4.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Renard, Jules

5.
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

6.
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

7.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Stevens, Wallace

8.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Hubbard, Elbert

9.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

10.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Flaubert, Gustave

11.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Sandburg, Carl

12.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Graves, Robert

14.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Ackerman, Diane

15.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Lowell, James Russell

16.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.
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.

18.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Bodenheim, Maxwell

19.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace

20.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Hardy, Thomas

21.
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.

22.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

23.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Marquis, Don

24.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles

25.
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

26.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Farquhar, George

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.

30.
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Morley, Christopher

31.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Sitwell, Dame Edith

32.
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.

33.
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Wilde, Oscar

34.
Poets are born, not paid.
Mizner, Addison

35.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Sandburg, Carl

40.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.

41.
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.

42.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Frost, Robert

43.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Marquis, Don

44.
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''

45.
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.

46.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Plath, Sylvia

47.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Frost, Robert

48.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Scott, Sir Walter

49.
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

50.
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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