But all art is sensual and poetry …
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of…
Poetry often enters through the window of …
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
~ M. C. Richards
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With me poetry has not been a …
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
~ Edgar Allan Poe…
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores …
Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
~ Adrian Mitchell
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Poetry should please by a fine excess …
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the…
Science arose from poetry–when times change the …
Science arose from poetry–when times change the two can meet again on a higher level…
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be …
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse…
I take as metaphysical poetry that in …
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought…
Poetry is not a turning loose of …
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is…
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination …
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
~ Lord Byron…
It was the misfortune of poetry to …
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed…
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious …
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive…