Motivational Quotes

Poetry and poets

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

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Poetry and poets

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Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Frost, Robert

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

Sandburg, Carl

4.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hardy, Thomas

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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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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Ashbery, John

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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

10.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Horace

15.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Field, Eugene

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Hare, David

19.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

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

Horace

21.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Marquis, Don

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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 indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Cocteau, Jean

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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.

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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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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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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

28.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Massinger, Philip

29.

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

Plath, Sylvia

30.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Roux, Joseph

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

37.

Poets are born, not paid.

Mizner, Addison

38.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Sandburg, Carl

39.

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.

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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

41.

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

Sandburg, Carl

42.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Horace

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