Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock’s vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so when swift […]
Poetry Quotes
I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.
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 all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn’t, yet these same poems make me gay.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Poets aren’t very useful Because they aren’t consumeful or produceful.
Lo! I the man for trifles unsurpassed: You mayn’t admire me but I hold you fast. Great themes are for great bards: enough to see – You oft rereading my light poetry!
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
