There are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Poetry Quotes
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
The importance and endurance of poetry, as well as art, are its hold upon reality. We hear much, on this side and that, of realism. Well, we may let realism go, but cannot let go reality.
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. Dante’s is one of those that one can only just hope to grow up to at the end of life.
The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day, with its news, its cares, its fears, as he shares them, and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it to have a purpose and beauty. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day.
Those who demand of poetry a day-dream, or a metamorphosis of their own feeble desires and lusts, or what they believe to be ‘intensity’ of passion, will not find much in Johnson. He is like Pope and Dryden, Crabbe and Landor, a poet for those who want poetry and not something else, some stay for […]
For the Universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they are called cause, operation and effect; or more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or theologically, the Father, the Spirit and the Son; but we will call the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These […]
“Has it ever happened to you,” Leon went on, “to come across some vague idea of one’s own in a book, some dim image that comes back to you from afar, and as the most complete expression of your own slightest sentiment?” “I have experienced it,” she replied. “That is why,” he said, “I especially […]
