Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Poetry Quotes
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love. Strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of […]
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle.
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house.
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
The Poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of a man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, […]
