Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post.
Poetry Quotes
Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly.
It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it in silence for years, something resulted which might […]
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, which cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet and artist has actually expressed.
Poetry gets a good deal of neglect. That’s probably good for it. It’s the same with all the arts. They get a good deal of neglect – adversity. Nobody knows just how much is good for the arts.
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it.
Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
