Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own.
Poetry Quotes
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all those incorporeal spirits, […]
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive […]
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
A rapper is a poet on steroids. Poets slow down the world, causing others to see it; rappers take on the commercial pace of the world.
Poetry must be as new as foam and old as rock.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
Plain hoss-sense in poetry-writen’Would jes’knock sentiment a-kitin’! Mostly poets is all star-gazin’And moanin’and groanin’and paraphrasin’! A Wholly Unscholastic Opinion,
