Poetry Quotes - Page 33

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

The poetry of speech.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

Poetry is God's work.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.