Those who demand of poetry a day-dream, or a metamorphosis of their own feeble desires and lusts, or what they believe to be ‘intensity’ of passion, will not find much in Johnson. He is like Pope and Dryden, Crabbe and Landor, a poet for those who want poetry and not something else, some stay for […]
Poetry Quotes
For the Universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they are called cause, operation and effect; or more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or theologically, the Father, the Spirit and the Son; but we will call the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These […]
“Has it ever happened to you,” Leon went on, “to come across some vague idea of one’s own in a book, some dim image that comes back to you from afar, and as the most complete expression of your own slightest sentiment?” “I have experienced it,” she replied. “That is why,” he said, “I especially […]
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
The poet’s habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can’t handle.
In the case of many poets, the most important thing for them to do… is to write as little as possible.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
