My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
Poets help us to love; that is their only function. And a fine use of their delightful vanity.
There is – extant a joke which Otway is said to have played off on Dryden, when their relations were strained. It is said that they lived in houses facing each other, and Otway wrote sarcastically on Dryden’s door one night: Here Dryden lives, a poet and a wit. to which Dryden replied the next […]
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
A man is either mad or he is making verses.
Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard.
Poets rather than fundamentalist betrayers of the spirit will win the world, because the planet needs imagination, the avant-garde spirit of poetry to survive.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
