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Poetry Is Quotes (page 18)

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. A. R. Ammons
Lascelles Abercrombie quote: "If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall..."
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. Lascelles Abercrombie
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential. Tom Robbins
Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But these frontiers are not like the surveys of geographical explorers, conquered once for all and settled. The frontiers of the spirit are more like the jungle which, unless continuously kept under control, is always ready to encroach and eventually obliterate the cultivated area. T. S. Eliot
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. Franz Grillparzer
James Broughton quote: "Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual..."
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. James Broughton
Jane Austen quote: "Is not poetry the food of love?"
Is not poetry the food of love? Jane Austen
Poetry. Love's Philosophy. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingl? Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the se? What are all these kissings worth, If... Percy Bysshe Shelley
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is,..."
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. John Drinkwater
Denis Diderot quote: "Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
Anthony Hecht quote: "Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of..."
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. Anthony Hecht
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. James Buchan
James Joyce quote: "Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a..."
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now it lights me as I walk to think I have two acts of King John tonight, and shall next read Richard the Second. It is poetry that I want now -- long poems. I want the concentration and the romance, and the words all glued together, fused, glowing; having no time to waste any more on prose. When I was twenty I liked Eighteenth Century prose; now it's poetry I want, so I... Virginia Woolf

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