poetry quotes

• The crown of literature is poetry. (William Maugham) [literature/poetry]
• Poetry is what gets lost in translation. (Robert Frost) [poetry]
• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. (Robert Frost) [poetry/misfortune/politics]
• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost) [poetry/words]
• I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time. (John Updike) [poetry/time/time]
• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. (John Updike) [poetry]
• Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. (Thomas Gray) [poetry/thoughts/words]
• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ( Socrates) [wisdom/poetry/instinct/inspiration]
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. (William Wordsworth) [poetry/feelings]
• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ( Aristotle) [poetry/more/poetry]
• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. (Antonin Artaud) [poetry/reading/poets]
• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. (Thomas Carlyle) [human/poetry/genius/inspiration]
• An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. (Raymond Chandler) [age/poetry/literature]
• All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [poetry]
• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. (Emily Dickinson) [take/poetry]
• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. (Emily Dickinson) [top/poetry]
• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. (Emily Dickinson) [poetry/personality/personality/personality]
• Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. (Denis Diderot) [poetry/wild]
• Our best history is still poetry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [poetry]
• Only poetry inspires poetry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [poetry/inspires/poetry]
• Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [poetry/poetry]
• Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [poetry]
• Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/poetry]
• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [beauty/poetry/delight]
• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [art/genius/poetry/music]
• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. (Robert Frost) [poetry/life]
• Poetry is what is lost in translation. (Robert Frost) [poetry]
• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. (Jean Giraudoux) [flower/poetry/reproduction/life]
• Superstition is the poetry of life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [superstition/poetry/life]
• Personality is everything in art and poetry. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [personality/art/poetry]
• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. (Robert Graves) [award/gold/poetry]

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