Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
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.
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion.
Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis.
However rootedly national it may be, poetry is less and less the prisoner of its own language.
Science has immortal flowers from where bees can extract honey of poetry.
Etymology is perennially fascinating because it revives the forgotten poetry of the everyday.
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.