Best poetry & great-poet Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages.”

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Author:Samuel R. Delany

“All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.”

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Author:Edith Sitwell

“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

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Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

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

“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”

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Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”

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Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

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Author:Dennis Gabor

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

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Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.”

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Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.”

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Book:Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

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