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.
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.
Freud is completely unscientific. It's a cross between vision, poetry and deceit.
Poets that lasting marble seek
Must come in Latin or in Greek.
It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter.
Poetry, the noble brotherhood who speak in tones of harmony, grandeur & pathos.