Quotes About Poetry

what an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment.

No one has ever talked to me as he did of the color blue or of golden hair curling like shavings around a reddened ear ...

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination

Ik heb het tijdelijke met het eeuwige vaak genoeg verwisseld in mijn poëzie om te weten dat ik het tijdelijke wil.

maar ik hou eigenlijk nog meer van een groep woorden die zich samen plotseling bijzonder intiem gaan voelen en zeggen: laat ons nou maar altijd bij elkaar, er hoeft er geen meer bij te komen.

Poëzie: de enige plaats waar onwetendheid het van academisme kan winnen.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

Había cometido la osadía de creer que no podría pasarme nada: después de todo, iba inmersa en un poema.

With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such is the holy gift of the Muses to men.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

Suppose she denied him then but favored him some other time? Women are weak and easily conquered by flattery. Especially when men write verses to them, and there are some who sat that Wyatt writes better verses than me, though I am the King.

O, give me burning blueand brittle burnt sea-weedabove the tide-line,as I stand, still unsatisfied,under the long shadow-on-snow of the pine.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

The sun is nearly audible.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

FULL MOON IS IN THREE DAYS TIME. COME TO THE REVEL. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO RHYME.

You've delivered your message. I have no bit of doggerel to send back—my own fault for having a seneschal who cannot double as my Court Poet—but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water when I do.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

Polyhymnia's

You've delivered your message. I have no big of doggerel to send back- my own fault for having a seneschal who cannot double as my Court Poet- but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water when I do.

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted Than you are now. —SARA TEASDALE, "I SHALL NOT CARE

From his [Nestor's] tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.