Famous Quotes About poetry

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I love romantic poetry.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.