Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men happiness, or leaves them ease.
Poetry Quotes
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
Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian’s so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at […]
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
It was poetry, which is to say, a mellifluous and caressing statement of the certainly not true. The two elements, of untruth and of beauty, are both important, and perhaps equally.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
You (Ezra Pound) made your great mistake when you abandoned the poetry business, and set up shop as a wizard in general practice. You wrote, in your day, some very good verse, and I had the pleasure, along with other literary buzzards, of calling attention to it at the time. But when you fell into […]
