Poetry Is Quotes - Page 13

• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  Laura Riding

  Memories, Giving, Mind

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• The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Autobiographical and political”

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• The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Destiny, Race

  Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

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• Poetry is language in orbit.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Poetry, Orbit

  Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber

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• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Pigment

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

  June Jordan

  Powerful, Mean, Poetry

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• Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

  Washington Irving

  Poetry, Complaints, Contagious

  Washington Irving (1860). “The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller”, p.158

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• Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poetry, Existence

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.315

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• Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Boston, Pie, Pumpkin

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1”, p.36

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• poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Way, Firsts

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• I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

  May Sarton

  School, Essentials, Way

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• poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Heart, Poetry, Way

  Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Desire

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• Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

  Jean Genet

  Art, Point Break, Poetry

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Poetry, Intention

  "A Visit With Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Britney Spears and More With a Master" by Mark Binelli, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

  John Banville

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

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• The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

  Don Paterson

  Art, Poetry, Machines

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• Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

  Robert Lowell

  Art, Poetry, Events

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• I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Poetry, Blithe, Subjects

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.145, Stanford University Press

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• A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Expression, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.279, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Mankind, Mysticism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, BookBaby

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• Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Miracle, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Discovery, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

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• Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wine, Epic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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