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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty"
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject"
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things"
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right"
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you."
Quote by -Jim Morrison
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
Quote by -Jim Morrison
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."
Quote by -Fernando Pessoa
"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
Quote by -Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
Quote by -Percy Bysshe Shelley