Quotes About Poetry

These words were utter'd in a pensive mood,   Even while mine eyes were on that solemn sight:

These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and love it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts, Bring sad thoughts to the mind." William Wordsworth

FRANK: Do you know Yeats? RITA: The wine lodge? FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet. RITA: No. FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance. RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Wielka Poezja b?d?c wielk? i b?d?c poezj? nie mo?e nie zachwyca? nas, a wi?c zachwyca!

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

As the poet said, "only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...

Poetry is the image of man and nature

Here lies resting, out of breath, Out of turns, Elizabeth Whose quicksilver toes not quite Cleared the whirring edge of night.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

Mi biblioteca, ya que es preciso decíroslo, se compone de novelas... sí, de novelas... y de algunos poetas escogidos. Como si no tuviese bastante con mis propios males, comparto aún voluntariamente los de mil personajes imaginarios, y los siento tan vivamente como los míos.