Poetry Quotes About Love And Life, Poetry Quotes Love
Poetry Quotes About Love And Life, Poetry Quotes Love
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~W. H. Auden
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ~Robert Frost
Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar’s atmosphere. ~Henry David Thoreau
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know. ~Andre Gide
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet. ~Bob Dylan
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ~Samuel Beckett
Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~Robert Frost
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. ~Erica Jong
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. ~William Wordsworth
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ~T.S. Eliot
Don’t write love poems when you’re in love. Write them when you’re not in love. ~Richard Hugo
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant. ~Brander Matthews
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ~Julian Barnes
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don Marquis
Poets aren’t very useful. / Because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful. ~Ogden Nash
A poet’s work … to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie
One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is: ‘Whatever you do, don’t be boring.’ ~Anne Sexton
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ~Oscar Wilde
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Khalil Gibran
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. ~Miguel de Cervantes
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry — but Good Poetry.
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. ~W.H. Auden
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. –Emily Dickinson
The poet is the priest of the invisible. ~Wallace Stevens
And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own sceptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. ~G. K Chesterton
