Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it’s a way of seeing things.
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved.
Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men happiness, or leaves them ease.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, and thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophesy and religion all in one.
When I admit neglect of Gissing, The say ‘You don’t know what you’re missing’ Until their arguments are subtler I think I’ll stick with Samuel Butler
Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian’s so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at […]
On the works of Walter Savage Landor I am unfit to the write with candor. If you can read them, well and good But as for me, I never could.
But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoever offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song.
