“'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.”
Quotes about poetry
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
“Superstition is the poetry of life.”
“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
“The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
“I love romantic poetry.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”
“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”
“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.”