Quotes About Poetry

Me pregunto quién sería el primero en descubrir la eficacia de la poesía para acabar con el amor. ?Yo siempre he considerado que la poesía es el alimento del amor ?dijo Darcy. ?De un gran amor, sólido y fuerte, puede. Todo nutre a lo que ya es fuerte de por sí. Pero si es solo una inclinación ligera, sin ninguna base, un buen soneto la acabaría matando de hambre.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Admiro a quien descubrió la eficacia de la poesía para estimular el amor. —En mi opinión, la poesía ha sido siempre el alimento del amor —dijo Darcy.

And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the FOOD of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. Darcy only smiled;

it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! - I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love - said Darcy. - Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. - Elizabeth Bennet

it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely;

It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Yo siempre he considerado que la poesía es el alimento del amor –dijo Darcy. –De un gran amor, sólido y fuerte, puede. Todo nutre a lo que ya es fuerte de por sí. Pero si es solo una inclinación ligera, sin ninguna base, un buen soneto la acabaría matando de hambre.

And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author's life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.

Words shouldn't be dirty or clean But definitely sweet, On the tongue, in the mind.

I learned to write poetry, telling the truth through metaphor, simile, straight-forward lies.

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after

His voice was cloves and nightingales.

You must find... someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered, someone whose fingers are a poem.

I suppose they cannot imagine what a person might be called upon to endure, when a line of poetry can mean the difference between strength and despair.

but for poetry one needs one's native tongue. The voice of the soul is not so easily translated.