Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except […]
Poetry Quotes
Souls of poets dead and gone What Elysium have thee known? Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
The occasional poet is circumscribed by the narrowness of his subject. Whatever can happen to man has happened so often, that little remains for fancy or invention. We have been all born; we have most of us been married; and so many have died before us, that our deaths can supply but few materials for […]
I never wrote one single Line of Poetry with the least Shadow of public thought.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
