Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.
Poetry Quotes
Alexander Pope leads, followed by Florence Earle Coates, Muriel Rukeyser and Horace. Samuel Johnson’s definition in Lives of the English Poets (1779), poetry as the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason, is the best-sourced entry, and Thoreau’s couplet from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is the saddest: his life was the poem he would have written, but he could not both live it and utter it.
Flagged: “All poetry is misrepresentation,” credited to Jeremy Bentham and disputed; a triplet on three poets from three distant ages, credited to Dryden and disputed; and “The crown of literature is poetry,” credited to Somerset Maugham and marked misattributed.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Mother and poetess do not rhyme, but they go together rather well.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.