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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Fall, Poetry, Goes On

In M. St. J. Packe 'The Life of John Stuart Mill' (1954) bk. 1, ch. 2

There are poets and there are grownups.

Poetry, Poet, Grownups

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

Janet Fitch

Writing, Poetry, Trying

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

Jan Clausen

Poetry, Poetic, Misuse

Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

James Russell Lowell

Pride, Men, Poetry

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

James Fenton

Language, Modern, English Poetry

2002 An Introduction to English Poetry.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

James Broughton

Real, Poetry, Would Be

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry, Shapes, Bent

Poetry is frosted fire.

J. Patrick Lewis

Fire, Poetry, Poetry Is

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Immanuel Kant

Art, Poetry, Example

Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer”, p.170, e-artnow

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Hortense Calisher

Poetry, Nuisance, Solace

Hortense Calisher (2013). “The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher”, p.629, Open Road Media

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

Horace

Men, Poetry, Rate

'Ars Poetica' l. 372

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Horace

Giving, Poetry, Pleasure

'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

Horace

Poetry, Matter, Comic

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Horace

Men, Poetry, Mediocrity

"Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Lines 372 - 373, c. 18 BC.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Horace

Order, Poetry, Tribes

Every old poem is sacred.

Horace

Art, Poetry, Sacred

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

Hilda Doolittle

Wall, Rainbow, Poetry

Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

Herbert Spencer

Light, White, Poetry

Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.31

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Poetry, Soul, Poetry Is

Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1853). “Outlines of English Literature”, p.468

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry, Healthy, Speech

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2097, Delphi Classics

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Simple, Men, Poetry

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2097, Delphi Classics