If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn’t, yet these same poems make me gay.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Poets aren’t very useful Because they aren’t consumeful or produceful.
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Indifference to poetry is one of the most conspicuous characteristics of the human race.
Vain was the chief’s, the sage’s pride! They had no poet, and they died.
Then, Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
