“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Jean Cocteau
Tag: poetry
In poetry everything which must be said
“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.”
— Paul Valery
Author: Paul Valery
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Paul Valery
Poetry is an art, the easiest to
“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.”
— J. G. Stedman
Author: J. G. Stedman
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, J. G. Stedman
Love is the poetry of the senses.
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Honore de Balzac
Poetry may make us from time to
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, T. S. Eliot
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque,
“Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.”
— Anatole Broyard
Author: Anatole Broyard
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Anatole Broyard
In the total darkness, poetry is still
“In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.”
— Abbas Kiarostami
Author: Abbas Kiarostami
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Abbas Kiarostami
Ye stars! which are the poetry of
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”
— Lord Byron
Author: Lord Byron
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Lord Byron
Maybe it is something to do with
“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Aung San Suu Kyi
If there were no poetry on any
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
— Muriel Rukeyser
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Muriel Rukeyser
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams,
“I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Allen Tate