I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.
Poetry Quotes
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule, That every poet is a fool; But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. (When Matthew Prior wrote a poem describing every poet as a fool, Pope retaliated with this verse.)
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
While pensive poets painful vigils keep – Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
