Poetry Is Quotes
Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.15, Duke University Press
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
Eavan Boland (2012). “A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet”, p.6, Carcanet
'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4095, e-artnow
Poems (1963 ed.) preface
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.127, Penguin UK
Charles Simic (2015). “The Life of Images: Selected Prose”, p.21, Harper Collins
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)
Leigh Hunt (1847). “Fiction and matter of fact. Inside of an omnibus. Day of the disasters of Carlington Blundell. Visit to the zoological gardens. A man introduced to his ancestors. Novel party. Beds and bedrooms. World of books. Jack Abbott's breakfast. On seeing a pigeon make love. Month of May. The Giuli tre. Few remarks on the cure vice called lying. Criticism on female beauty. Of deceased statesmen who have written verses. Female sovereigns of England”, p.249
Gwendolyn Brooks (1980). “Young Poet's Primer”
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.40
