Poets And Poetry Quotes
These are some of the best 'Poets And Poetry' quotations and sayings.
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A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. 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. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
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Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
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No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
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Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
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One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
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