850 private quotes tagged poetry

“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.” — Jean Cocteau

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“God is the perfect poet.” — Robert Browning

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“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf

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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

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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” — Novalis

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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” — Emily Dickinson

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“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.” — Jean Cocteau

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“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.” — Jean Cocteau

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“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.” — Joseph Joubert

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“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.” — Michael Graves

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“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” — John Keats

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“Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.” — Robert Morgan

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“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.” — Gustave Flaubert

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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

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“If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.” — James Russell Lowell

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“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” — Paul Valery

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“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.” — John Drinkwater

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

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