Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Poetry Quotes
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.
Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post.
Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly.
It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name.
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
