Famous Quotes About poetry

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.