Quotes About Poetry

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I'm getting on well here, I've got a lovely home & I'm finding it very pleasurable taking a look at London & the English way of life & the English people themselves, & then I've got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn't enough, what is?

and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

A felicidade é como a gota De orvalho numa pétala de flor Brilha tranquila Depois de leve oscila E cai como uma lágrima de amor

Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament.

Draw Daphnis from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.

What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you?

I who once played shepherds' songs and in my brash youth sang of you, O Tityrus, beneath the spreading beech.

I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

tu dormi dragostea mea. sînt singur am inventat poezia si nu mai am inima

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Los hombres denuncian con virulencia las injusticias sociales o raciales, pero se muestran indulgentes y comprensivos cuando se trata de la dominación machista (...) piensan que una forma de opresión es insoportable y que la otra está llena de poesía

Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía.

Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Konu k?y?mlard?. ?ili'de tüfekleri kullananlar uzmand?lar. Körü körüne ölümlerde "Kimse ya da hiçbir ?ey ölmüyormu? gibiydi,/topra?a dü?en ta?,suya kavu?an suydu sanki." ?air bir ceza ister. K?rm?z? bir hat çizer. Seçti?i yandaki halkt?r, öte yandakiler dü?manlar?.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

This poem will never reach its destination.

All is changed, changed utterly A terrible beauty is born

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love