Poetry Quotes
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To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.