850 private quotes tagged 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.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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“Personality is everything in art and poetry.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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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 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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“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 a way of taking life by the throat.” — Robert Frost

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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.” — W. H. Auden

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“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.” — A. E. Housman

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“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.” — Johnny Depp

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“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” — Brooks Atkinson

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