850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.” — John Keats

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“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.” — Jean Cocteau

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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” — W. H. Auden

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“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.” — Paul Dirac

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“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.” — Pablo Neruda

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“Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.” — Matthew Arnold

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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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“The crown of literature is poetry.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.” — Charles Baudelaire

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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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“I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” — John Donne

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“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” — James Joyce

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“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.” — Chinua Achebe

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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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“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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“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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“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” — Joseph Joubert

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“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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“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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