Quotes About Poetry

Les savants ne les comprennent pas et, la plupart du temps, ils les méprisent, parce qu'ils ont trop d'orgueil… Pour aimer les vers, il suffit d'avoir une âme… une petite âme toute nue, comme une fleur… Les poètes parlent aux âmes des simples, des tristes, des malades… Et c'est en cela qu'ils sont éternels… Sais-tu bien que, lorsqu'on a de la sensibilité, on est toujours un peu poète ?…

Touched by poetry, language is more fully language and at the same time is no longer language: it is a poem.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.

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The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus..

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O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting. O, to see you again. Covered in spring.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

No hay que confundir poesía con vaselina; vigor, con camiseta sucia.

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

La poésie est l'arme de la révolte.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth— how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.

It is poetry which effortlessly moves the heavens and the earth, awakens the world of invisible spirits to deep feeling, softens the relationship between men and women, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.