It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Poetry Quotes
When Elizabeth Bishop agreed to teach a poetry workshop for the first time (1966), she was dismayed. Her students didn’t know anything but the urge to “discover” or “express” themselves. So she sat them difficult metrical exercises, insisting: “You should have your head filled with poems all the time, until they almost get in your […]
(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
The girl whose boy-friend starts writing her love poems should be on guard.
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination.
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times.
