Quotes About Poetry

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.