Poetry Quotes - page 72

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting. (Wallace Stevens)
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it. View quote
Wallace Stevens
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. View quote
Isaac Rosenberg
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. View quote
James Martineau
A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having, for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth; to romance, by having for ­its object an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite, poetry with indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception. Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don't you say what you mean?" View quote
Robert Frost
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. View quote
Robert Frost
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that. (Viggo Mortensen)
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music. View quote
Donald Knuth
Asking poetry to fulfil a (merely) political function would be a mistake. This tends to lead us to poetry that, however cleverly or inventively, can do no better than denounce the apparently evil and/or praise the good. Worse, we get something that is very much in fashion right now: the fetishisation and weaponisation of our own pain.... View quote
Ariana Reines
Poetry shows up where language shows up – a mysterious supplement, to borrow or deform an old Derrida epithet, that we cannot do without, and that just might be the basis of the material world as we know it. Well, if not language as such, then sound... View quote
Ariana Reines
The study and practice of poetry can equip you to 'boldly go where no man has gone before,' but it's not enough to go there-you have to be able to bear witness. Without witnessing, experience dissolves into nothing. View quote
Ariana Reines
A word - a name - Conjures the past before me, till it grows More actual than the present : that - I see But with the common eyes of daily life, Imperfect and impatient; but the past Out of imagination works its truth, And grows distinct with poetry. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We deny that poetry is fiction; its merit and its power lie alike in its truth:. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I never saw more perfect loveliness. It ask'd, it had no aid from dress: her robe Was white, and simply gather'd in such folds As suit a statue: neck and arms were bare; The black hair was unbound, and like a veil Hung even to her feet; she held a lute, And, as she paced the ancient gallery, waked A few wild chords, and murmur'd low sweet words, But scarcely audible, as if she thought Rather than spoke:-the night, the solitude, Fill'd the young Pythoness with poetry. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Why, the very element of poetry is faith-faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Once more my harp awakens; once again, Tho' all unworthy be my hand to twine Th' etherial blossomings of poetry, I would call forth its numbers, yet would feel Its music fall like sunlight on my soul. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
There is a well of melancholy poetry in every human bosom. We have all mourned over the destroyed illusion and the betrayed hope. We have quarrelled in some embittered moment with an early friend, and when too late lamented the estrangement. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The imagination, which is the source of poetry, has in every country been the beginning as well as the ornament of civilization. It civilizes because it refines. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But these days Of visible poetry have long been past!- No fear that the young hunter may profane The haunt of some immortal. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Mysterious enthusiasm, Love! The heart's supremest power;-which doth combine Within itself religion, poetry, And heroism. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon