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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. - Anonymous Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. - Aristotle Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. - Matthew Arnold The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. - Matthew Arnold Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,--under-makers. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (Proem, l. 5) I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. - Russell Baker It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance. - Honore de Balzac I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. - John Barrymore Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin. - Henry Ward Beecher 'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. - Bidpai (Pilpay), Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering) 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. - William Cullen Bryant You speak As one who fed on poetry. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Richelieu (act I, sc. 1) Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. - Edmund Burke For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 463) Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after; But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 23) For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3) The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Corsair (preface) Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship (3) For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. - Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott--London and Westminster Review The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of language. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) Take the commonplace, clean and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. - Jean Cocteau A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket; let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to your imagination than to your memory. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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