850 private quotes tagged poetry

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

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“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“I love romantic poetry.” — Richard Dawkins

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

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

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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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“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” — Thomas Mann

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“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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