One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose.
Poetry Quotes
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet.
Poets tell many lies.
No poet I’ve ever heard of has written an ode to a load of manure.
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Of all my generation, he (T. S. Eliot) most admired Auden, but once when we were praising Auden’s criticism, he said: “All the same, he’s not a scholar.” – “Why?” – “I was reading an Introduction by him to a selection of Tennyson’s poems, in which he says that Tennyson is the stupidest poet in […]
