The great poems, Shakespeare’s included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy.
Poetry Quotes
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn’t declaim or explain, it presents.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express’d in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
She could never forget that the man she loved was a man with a past. He had been a poet. Deep down in her soul there was the corroding fear lest any moment a particularly fine sunset or the sight of a rose in bud might undo all the work she had done, sending Rodney […]
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.
