Famous Quotes About poetry

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.