Famous Quotes About poetry

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Wine is bottled poetry.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

It's not easy to define poetry.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.