The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Poetry Quotes
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?
Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it’s a way of seeing things.
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved.
Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men happiness, or leaves them ease.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, and thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophesy and religion all in one.
When I admit neglect of Gissing, The say ‘You don’t know what you’re missing’ Until their arguments are subtler I think I’ll stick with Samuel Butler
