Home / Topics / Poetry Quotes

Poetry Quotes

Browse 12091 quotes about Poetry.

Poetry Quotes

“The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.”

Art Poetry Individual Myth Poetic Reign

Book:The Poetic Image

Source: The Poetic Image

“The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.”

Men World Poetry Speak Realizing Heard Groups Poet Instinct Myth Revolutionary New World Peril Speaks Out

Author:Babette Deutsch

“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.”

Men Littles Poetry Capacity Myth Meaningful Poetry Is Meaningful Life Great Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

Men Writing May Littles Ends Light Poetry Capacity Myth Meaningful Meaning Of Life Poetry Is Meaningful Life Life Means Great Poetry What Is Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

People Knows Believe Lasts Poetry Universe Belief I Believe Common Principles Poet Tradition Myth Sole Casual Allusion Kitties Guiding Principles

Author:Philip Larkin

“The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.”

May Light Poetry Myth Poetry Is Great Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. At certain times it is the poetry of life and the mythic imagination of the soul that become necessary in order to heal the wounds inflicted by an excess of reason or an overuse of force.”

Heart Poetry Imagination Myth Poems Healing Wounds

Book:The Genius Myth

Source: The Genius Myth

“It could be said that the lectures changed the way many people thought about myth, fairy story, and poetry, and even about the relationship of imagination to thought and to language. One of the brilliant but cryptic insights he expressed was: ‘To ask what is the origins of stories … is to ask what is the origin of language and of the mind.”

Poetry Language Imagination Myth Fairy Tales Fairy Story

Book:The Return of the Ring Volume I: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012

Source: The Return of the Ring Volume I: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012