850 private quotes tagged poetry

“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” — Ezra Pound

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“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.” — Gertrude Stein

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“France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” — Horace

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“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis

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“I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.” — W. H. Auden

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“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.” — Denis Diderot

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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Montessori

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“I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.” — Leonard Cohen

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“I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.” — Leonard Cohen

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“Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.” — David Hockney

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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.” — John Cage

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“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.” — Raymond Chandler

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“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” — John Dryden

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“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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