Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Poetry Quotes
My question is; “When did other people give up the ideas of being a poet?” You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why the other people stopped?
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.
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.
