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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“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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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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“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.” — Paul Muldoon

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

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“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.” — Richard Dawkins

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

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“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.” — Carl Sandburg

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“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” — Carl Sandburg

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“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“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.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“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.” — Bertrand Russell

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

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

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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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“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.” — Niels Bohr

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“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!” — Lord Byron

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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.” — Victor Hugo

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