Quotes About Poetry

But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it—who can describe that?

All the poetry is going from Nature,' he cried. 'her lakes and marshes are drained, her seas banked up, her forests cut down. Everywhere we see the vulgarity of desolation spreading.

he dragged his words painfully from the poets

Today, our task remains the same, no matter its difficulty or the magnitude of the challenge. Some of us must become poets, but we all must bear witness. Make the suffering real and force the world to pay attention to it, and not place that suffering all at the feet of Donald Trump, but understand it as the inevitable outcome in a country that continues to lie to itself.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not—they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells.

The viol, the violet, and the vine.

In her sepulcher there by the sea—In her tomb by the sounding sea.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase "a long poem" is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

And when, amid no earthly moans,Down, down that town shall settle hence,Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,Shall do it reverence.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song.

Roses red and violets blue,And all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew.

I was promised on a timeTo have reason for my rhyme;From that time unto this season,I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.