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.
Poetry Quotes
In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives.
Byron and Shelley and Keats Were a trio of lyrical treats. The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls, And Keats never was a descendant of earls, And Byron walked out with a number of girls, But it didn’t impair the poetical feats Of Byron and Shelley, Of Byron and Shelley, Of Byron and Shelley […]
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
The ultimate can only be expressed in conduct. Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Language may die at the hands of the schoolmen: it is regenerated by the poets.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my friend.
Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
