Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
Poetry Quotes
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
None merit the name of creator save God and the poet.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns.
Vex not thou the poet’s mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet’s mind; For thou canst not fathom it.
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what “must become.”… Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandoleer. And poets are the snipers.
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed […]
