Comprehensive collection of Poetry Quotes. The compilation includes some good quality text submitted by users. Browse through our nice repository of Poetry Quotes with latest and new quotes being added quite often. You will find unique quotes and sayings which you can rate and review. Explore best and rare collection of Poetry Quotes here, select any text from the wide range and share or send using mobile. Apart from general Poetry Quotes, the collection also includes some popular Poetry Quotes. You can help us to enrich this collection of Poetry Quotes by sending and submitting more messages from your collection to us and by providing nice ideas. This is Part – 5 of Poetry Quotes.
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
~~~~~~~
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
~~~~~~~
A poetry articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
~~~~~~~
A poet”s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
~~~~~~~
A poet’s hope: to be,like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere.
~~~~~~~
A poet”s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
~~~~~~~
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
~~~~~~~
A verse may finde him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.
~~~~~~~
Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
~~~~~~~
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
~~~~~~~
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
~~~~~~~
All poets are mad.
~~~~~~~
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
~~~~~~~
All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it.
~~~~~~~
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman’s face, or worse– The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.
~~~~~~~
Always be a poet, even in prose.
~~~~~~~
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
~~~~~~~
An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe; but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody’s use, and glorify them by his handling.
~~~~~~~
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.
~~~~~~~
And so no force, however great, Can strain a cord, however fine, Into a horizontal line That shall be absolutely straight.
Leave a Reply