Poetry Quotes


203 Poetry quotes:



"Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"Writing a poem is discovering"
Author: Frost Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things"
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate."
Author: Milton Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry."
Author: Dickens Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Author: Dickinson Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes American Poet Quotes
"We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry."
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"
Author: Wordsworth Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"[Poetry] contains a natural delineation of human passions, human characters, and human incidents."
Author: Wordsworth Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents"
Author: Aurelius Quotes Category: Men Quotes Poetry Quotes
"God is the perfect poet."
Author: Browning Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes English Poet Quotes
"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes French Writer Quotes
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: History Quotes Poetry Quotes
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
Author: Keats Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes English Poet Quotes
"There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea"
Author: Emerson Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock."
Author: Emerson Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Poet Quotes
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
Author: Gogh Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes


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