Quotes About Appreciation

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.