The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Poetry Quotes
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
I must confess, I had often a titillation to poetry, but never durst venture on my muse, till I got her into a corner in the country; and then, like a bashful young lover, when I had her in private, I had courage to fumble, but never thought she would have produced anything; till at […]
Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue. (to Robert, Earl of Oxford)
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Poet How goes the world? Painter It wears, sir, as it grows. (Timon of Athens)
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father’s soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross?
