Quotes about Poetry, page 2

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

Quote by William Wordsworth about poetry

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Quote by William Wordsworth about poetry

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry

The kids get everything-the flashing lights and the pyrotechnics and the smoke. We're an effects-driven society. But we're also giving them Scripture.

Quote by Willie Aames about poetry

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

No great poetry, of whatever kind, is conceivable unless the subject has become integrated with the poet's mind and mood.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry

When Allen's work came into the world it really shocked everyone because his poetry comes from a very seductive place.

Quote by Kathy Acker about poetry

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about poetry