Poetry Quotes - Page 20

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.