We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive […]
Poetry Quotes
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
A rapper is a poet on steroids. Poets slow down the world, causing others to see it; rappers take on the commercial pace of the world.
Poetry must be as new as foam and old as rock.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
Plain hoss-sense in poetry-writen’Would jes’knock sentiment a-kitin’! Mostly poets is all star-gazin’And moanin’and groanin’and paraphrasin’! A Wholly Unscholastic Opinion,
Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
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)
