Best poetry & certain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture

“If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.”

Ifs Way Children Would Be Poetry Certain Masters Ordinary Critics Piety Dullness

Author:Edith Sitwell

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Humans Art Poetry Certain Difficult Moral Awareness Art Is Function Primaries Efficient Deceiving

Author:W. H. Auden

“Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.”

Art Poetry Certain Given Grows Numbers Elements Capacity Complexes Meaningful Combination Perceive Acquire Categories Restriction

Author:Yuri Lotman

“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.”

Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Love Soul Poetry Certain Dark Secret Love You Shadow Pregnancy Sonnet I Hate You Dark Things

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

Knows Want Inspirational Needs Poetry Certain Dies Prayer Secret Wonderful Solitude Safe Nervous Broken Heart Hiding Hiding Place Before I Die

Book:Take Me With You

Source: Take Me With You

“At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.”

Men Poetry Certain Fire Regard Warm Flames

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.”

Ifs Writing Trying Poetry Certain Cat Fishes Poetry Is Stale

Author:Osbert Sitwell

“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Art Form Poetry Certain Goal Animal Failing Poet Politician Speech Entertainment Kingdoms Poetry Is Inferiors Doom Salesman Beacons Forfeit Charlatans Articulation Animal Kingdom

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

Mind Persons Poetry Certain Enjoy Poet Unsoundness

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.”

Way Persons Poetry Certain Natural Memories Forget Particular Poet Genius Originals Impression Poetic Never Forget Freshness Natural Gifts

Author:Stephen Spender

Poetry Quotes

Related topics

Poetry Quotes