Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle.
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house.
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
The Poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of a man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, […]
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I […]
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
