Poetry Is Quotes - Page 5

• Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

  William Hazlitt

  Poetry, Remember

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.2

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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Poetry, Uniting

  Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.120

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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Sleep, Names

  The Satanic Verses pt. 2 (1988)

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• He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

  George Sand

  Poetry, Noble, Delight

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.20

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Synthesis

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

  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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• Though lovers be lost love shall not.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

  Mark Strand

  Running, Poetry, Ink

  "Eating Poetry" l. 1 (1980)

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• Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

  Mina Loy

  Ideas, Sound, Made

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Poetry is devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Philosophy, Wine

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• Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

  William Wordsworth

  Great Inspirational, Emotion, Tranquillity

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• The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

  Andreï Makine

  Rivals, Slave, Prose

  "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Book by Andreï Makine, September 6, 1995.

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• Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

  Lisa See

  Mind, Earth, Emotion

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.70, A&C Black

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• Poetry is prose in slow motion.

  Nicholson Baker

  Slow Motion, Prose

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Relationship, Mathematics, Form

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• Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mother, Race, Poetry

  Johann Georg Hamann (2007). “Writings on Philosophy and Language”

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• Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Imagination, Poetry

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Writing, Cat, Poetry

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• Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

  Marianne Moore

  Poetry, Verbs, Nouns

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• Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Poetry, Shapes, Bent

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• It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

  Horace

  Interesting, Poetry, Enough

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 99, 18 BC.

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• Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

  Paul Valery

  Dance, Journey, Hiking

  Talk on BBC Radio, January 13, 1976.

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• Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Falling In Love, Inspire, Islam

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• The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Mean, Law, Narrative

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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