We call those poets who are first to mark Through earth’s dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight’s gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
Poetry Quotes
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
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.
Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write a poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are […]
