Poetry Is Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

  Horace

  Distance, Pieces, Fancy

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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• The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Want, Actresses

  "Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

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• Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

  Rumi

  Reality, Love Is

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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 a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Dog, Knowing

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

  Jean Cocteau

  Guarantees, Dogma, Martyr

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• Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

  Quintus Ennius

  Father, Latin, Greek

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• The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Poetry, Literature, Natural

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• Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

  Marc-Andre Fleury

  Heart, Men, Poetry

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• Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

  Linda Hogan

  Poetry, Parades, Permit

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• Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

  Laura Riding

  Sleep, Poetry, Listening

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• Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Moving, Flying, Way

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Helping, Sufi

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• A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Poetry

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.33

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• I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Poetry, Tasks, Criticize

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• Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

  Vanna Bonta

  Life, Poetry, Way

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• Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

  Vanna Bonta

  Poetry, Cosmos

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Book by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

  Vanna Bonta

  Heart, Poetry, Soul

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• The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Lightning, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.171, Stanford University Press

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• Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Summer, Daughter, School

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• Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, People, Musical

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Thinking, People

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