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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet a really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Quote by -Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
"When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet."
Quote by -Robert Greene
"The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality."
Quote by -Robert Greene
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance".
Quote by -John Keats
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
Quote by -John Keats
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
Quote by -John Keats
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?
Quote by -Alexander Pope
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not a poet.
Quote by -Alexander Pope
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Quote by -Alexander Pope
Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
"The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!"
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
Quote by -Stephen Fry
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
Quote by -Michael Palin
I don't always understand poetry!' 'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it...whenever.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Quote by -Robert Frost