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Poetry Quotes (page 24)

John Fowles quote: "To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so..."
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles
So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time,get drunk, get drunk,and never pause for rest!With wine, poetry, or virtue,as you choose! Charles Baudelaire
It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became a reflected image of perfection. He set poets the task of writing philosophically, not only in the sense of giving instruction, but in the sense of striving, by the imitation of appearance, to arrive at its true essence and to show its insufficiency measured by the beauty of the Idea. Erich Auerbach
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. Anais Nin
Frank McCourt quote: "After a full belly all is poetry."
After a full belly all is poetry. Frank McCourt
Wallace Stevens quote: "One must read poetry with one's nerves."
One must read poetry with one's nerves. Wallace Stevens
Virginia Woolf quote: "Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering..."
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? Virginia Woolf
Pablo Neruda quote: "It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
Mark Twain quote: "The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a..."
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. Mark Twain
John Keats quote: "If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it..."
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. John Keats
We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen. Vladimir Nabokov
I don't always understand poetry!''You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever. Alan Bennett
T. S. Eliot quote: "Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not..."
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. T. S. Eliot
The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it. Tennessee Williams

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