850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Why should poetry have to make sense?” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.” — Ani DiFranco

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“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.” — Denis Diderot

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“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” — Carl Sandburg

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“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.” — Socrates

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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.” — Robert Frost

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“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.” — Octavio Paz

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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.” — André Gide

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“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” — Albert Einstein

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“Superstition is the poetry of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” — Steven Wright

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“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” — Plutarch

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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” — Robert Frost

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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.” — Voltaire

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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.” — William Blake

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“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” — Edmund Burke

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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