Quotes about Poetry, page 4

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about poetry

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Quote by Walter Pater about poetry

It's just poetry, beauty and love, how hard can that be to act.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about poetry

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry

Any healthy man can go without food for two days but not without poetry.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry

In this blind world, not everything that flies is called angel.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about poetry

The angels didn't get down from Noah's Arch, they preferred to remain a myth.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about poetry

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

Genuine poetry can communicate the feeling before it is understood.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from...

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about poetry