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Poetry Quotes (page 3)

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic. William Hazlitt
Wallace Stevens quote: "Poetry is a finikin thing of air. That lives uncertainly and..."
Poetry is a finikin thing of air. That lives uncertainly and not for long. Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. Wallace Stevens
Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all. C. S. Lewis
W. H. Auden quote: "Poetry makes nothing happen."
Poetry makes nothing happen. W. H. Auden
Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness. Charlotte Bronte
Edith Wharton quote: "Poetry and art are the breath of life to her."
Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. Edith Wharton
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand. Ray Bradbury
W. H. Auden quote: "Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed..."
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. W. H. Auden
Washington Irving quote: "Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land."
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Washington Irving
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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. Emily Dickinson
Jean-Luc Godard quote: "Poetry is a game of loser-take-all."
Poetry is a game of loser-take-all. Jean-Luc Godard
Poetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and when the hurdler's scissored legs and outstretched arms carry him over the bars, the limp in his life, the headache in his heart, the emptiness he's full of, are as absent as his street-shoes, which will pinch and scrape his feet in all the old leathery ways once the race is over and he has to walk through the front door of his future like a brushman with some feckless... William Gass
George Eliot quote: "Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. George Eliot
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. William Ellery Channing
Anne Sexton quote: "Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face."
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face. Anne Sexton

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