Famous Quotes About poetry

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.