For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibly, had also thought long and deeply. I have said that […]
Poetry Quotes
Poetry too is nowadays a one-man job. It neither derives from declamatory nor contemplates its necessity. Poets don’t begin life as actors or elocutionists, and certainly actors and elocutionists do not commonly or normally take up poetic composition. Poetry, like prose writing, is not even recited at all for the most part. It is merely […]
The job of the poet is to render the world – to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
What is a poet? To whom does he address himself? And what language is expected of him? – He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has greater knowledge of human knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than […]
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
