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.
There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.
I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is?
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
We are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.
Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.