Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
Poetry Quotes
Poets and such persons talk about the public as if it were some enormous and abnormal monster-a huge hybrid between the cow they milk and the dragon that drinks their blood.
The discoveries of science leave the world as full of poetry as they found it.
I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
Mists, bones, the singer himself, love-stories, And all least furlable things got “furled”; Not with any design to conceal their glories, But simply and solely to rhyme with “world.” O if “billows” and “pillows” and “hours” and “flowers,” And all the brave rhymes of an elder day, Could be furled together, this genial weather, And […]
I know that poetry is indispensible, but to what I could not say.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
The words of Milton are true in all things, and were never truer than in this: ‘He who would write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic poem.’
