Verses, which do not teach men new and moving truths, do not deserve to be read.
Poetry Quotes
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
