Quotes about Poetry, page 2

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

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else.

Quote by Al Alvarez about poetry

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Quote by Aristotel about poetry

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Quote by Aristotel about poetry

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about poetry

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Quote by George Gordon Byron about poetry

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Quote by Johnny Depp about poetry