Quotes about Poetry, page 7

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Quote by Juan Ramón Jiménez about poetry

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Quote by Paul Verlaine about poetry

I write what's given me to write.

Quote by Philip Levine about poetry

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Quote by Philip Levine about poetry

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Quote by Thomas Gray about poetry

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Quote by Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer about poetry

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Quote by Robert Burns about poetry

The crown of literature is poetry.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about poetry

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Quote by Georg Trakl about poetry

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Quote by Georg Trakl about poetry

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about poetry

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a...

Quote by E. J. Pratt about poetry

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Quote by Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin about poetry

Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Quote by Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin about poetry

The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave, Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave The end of its venomous existence so despised! From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal teeth You came and drew what he'd devoured from...

Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry

Virtue alone is free. Honor of our history, Our immortal shame we live beside your glory.

Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry

What feeds me destroys me.

Quote by Christopher Marlowe about poetry

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Quote by George Seferis about poetry

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry