Quotes about Poetry, page 7

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Quote by John Keats about poetry

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend? " "It is bitter-bitter, " he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And...

Quote by Stephen Crane about poetry

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Quote by Alfred de Musset about poetry

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven about poetry

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Quote by Alphonse Daudet about poetry

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; When fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Quote by Johann Gottfried von Herder about poetry

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Quote by Juan Ramón Jiménez about poetry

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Quote by Paul Verlaine about poetry

I write what's given me to write.

Quote by Philip Levine about poetry

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Quote by Philip Levine about poetry

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Quote by Thomas Gray about poetry

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Quote by Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer about poetry

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Quote by Robert Burns about poetry

The crown of literature is poetry.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about poetry

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Quote by Georg Trakl about poetry

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Quote by Georg Trakl about poetry

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about poetry

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a...

Quote by E. J. Pratt about poetry

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Quote by Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin about poetry

Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Quote by Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin about poetry