Indifference to poetry is one of the most conspicuous characteristics of the human race.
Poetry Quotes
Vain was the chief’s, the sage’s pride! They had no poet, and they died.
Then, Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
Poetry is the sculpture of thought.
The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts of the human experience alive until […]
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
A poem should not mean, But be.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act… The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.
