Poetry…is an espresso shot of thought and public poetry is as necessary as it ever was.
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.
I wanted to find out why Shelley could write better-sounding poetry than I.
Poetry itself being the music of thoughts and words, as music is the poetry of sounds.
From the start, my work has been an interaction between art and poetry.
The world is afraid to read poetry, but the world is full of poetry.
In spite of all romantic poets sing,
This gold, my dearest, is an useful thing.
He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch.
And finally, give me at least some vodka to drink
And then puke because poets should be used.
Poetry is a way of exploring experience, of understanding what it means to be human.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning; or, pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry.