There are other similarities between poetry and children’s speech. Poets tend to look for significant evocative detail – something straight out of life – to carry their meaning, and to avoid the vaguely general or abstract terms. With young children it is not a matter of choice. Their ideas must take a concrete form of […]
Poetry Quotes
Nothing probably is more dangerous for the human race than science without poetry, civilization without culture.
A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
How willingly I would as a poet exchange some of this lumbering, ponderous, helpless knowledge of books for some experience of life and man. But all this grumbling is a vile thing.
Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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.
