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Poetry Quotes (page 44)

Arthur Rimbaud quote: "Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the..."
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! Arthur Rimbaud
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up..."
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? L. M. Montgomery
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time. Mario Puzo
Oscar Wilde quote: "There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it;..."
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. Oscar Wilde
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. Charles Baudelaire
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it - it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk. Charles Baudelaire
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see. Archibald MacLeish
Emily Dickinson quote: "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,..."
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry. Emily Dickinson
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. Milan Kundera
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody. Richard Wilbur
E. M. Forster quote: "Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave."
Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave. E. M. Forster
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole. Seamus Heaney
If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring,... John Muir
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow. Umberto Eco
William Butler Yeats quote: "What can be explained is not poetry."
What can be explained is not poetry. William Butler Yeats

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