The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express’d in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
Poetry Quotes
She could never forget that the man she loved was a man with a past. He had been a poet. Deep down in her soul there was the corroding fear lest any moment a particularly fine sunset or the sight of a rose in bud might undo all the work she had done, sending Rodney […]
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.
For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibly, had also thought long and deeply. I have said that […]
Poetry too is nowadays a one-man job. It neither derives from declamatory nor contemplates its necessity. Poets don’t begin life as actors or elocutionists, and certainly actors and elocutionists do not commonly or normally take up poetic composition. Poetry, like prose writing, is not even recited at all for the most part. It is merely […]
The job of the poet is to render the world – to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
