Best Quotes about Poetry and poets
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
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to thosewho need it.
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.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Barrymore, John
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Auden, W. H.
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Wilde, Oscar
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
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.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
Eliot, T. S.
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
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Frost, Robert
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
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
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Thoreau, Henry David
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Plath, Sylvia
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
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Marquis, Don
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Hardy, Thomas
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.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Stedman, Captain J. G.
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.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Temple, Sir William
Poetry is life distilled.
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Diderot, Denis
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Horace
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
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
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
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Dickinson, Emily
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Fitzhugh, C.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Woolf, Virginia
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Scott, Sir Walter
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Graves, Robert
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Hare, David
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Hazlitt, William
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Massinger, Philip
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
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
Poets are born, not paid.
Mizner, Addison
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joubert, Joseph
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.)
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Baudelaire, Charles
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Roux, Joseph
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
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Sandburg, Carl
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Sandburg, Carl
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