Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns.
Poetry Quotes
Vex not thou the poet’s mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet’s mind; For thou canst not fathom it.
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what “must become.”… Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandoleer. And poets are the snipers.
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed […]
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father’s soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross?
Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it’s a way of seeing things.
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved.
