Quotes about Poetry, page 3

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

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Quote by Federico Fellini about poetry

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Quote by Tom Hanks about poetry

Also, the fact that she took all the different tragedies or difficulties in her life and made the best out of them, and not only made the best out of them, but did it in an interesting way. From pain, she did art and poetry; from the infidelities...

Quote by Salma Hayek about poetry

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poetry

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about poetry

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about poetry

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Quote by James Joyce about poetry

When roads and trees are dressing themselves in white, far away or just a step from one from the other, souls of dreamers are wrapping themselves in poetry. RightWords Translation

Quote by Mariana Fulger about poetry

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Quote by George Oppen about poetry

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

Quote by George Oppen about poetry

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Quote by Arnold Palmer about poetry

I read mostly fiction and some poetry. I don't tend to read nonfiction unless I'm doing research for my own writing.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about poetry

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Quote by Walter Pater about poetry

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about poetry