The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Poetry Quotes
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)
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading, it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
It was interesting to see them together – Tagore, the poet with the head of a thinker, and Einstein, the thinker with the head of a poet. It seemed to an observer as though two planets were engaged in a chat.
When the mercury is 95, I dine in my shirt sleeves and write poetry naked.
