Quotes About Poetry

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul.

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

The sky mingled with the Earth infinitely in the tenderness of rain drops.

Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain

What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.