As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
Poetry Quotes
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of a Song; there lies the poet’s native land.
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except […]
Souls of poets dead and gone What Elysium have thee known? Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
