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  • Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

    Life   Wise   Wisdom  
  • What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

    Poet   Said   Reader  
  • Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

    "If - " st. 1 (1910)
  • Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

    "In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays". Book by Anais Nin, p. 14, 1976.
  • One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

    Unique   Reality   Two  
  • If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Taken   Writing   Poetry  
    Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

    "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)
  • To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

    Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.521, NYU Press
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
  • A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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

    Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24
  • 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.

    Passion   Men   Profound  
    "Biographia Literaria". Book by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ch. XV, 1817.
  • Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

    Sonnet 18
  • Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Poetry   Emotion   Found  
  • A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.

    Cutting   Shining   Use  
  • Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Time   Lying   Party  
    Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.
  • I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

    Memorable   Two   Poetry  
  • Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

    Writing   Poetry   Soul  
    Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 224
  • Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

    Beauty   Poetry   World  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions
  • He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

    Poetry   Noble   Delight  
    George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.20
  • Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

    "The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.
  • No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

    Time   Men   Profound  
    Biographia Literaria ch. 15 (1817)
  • God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

    God   Perfect   Poet  
    'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 2, l. 648
  • Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

    New York Times, February 17, 1957.
  • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

    Sorry   Taken   Journey  
    Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

    Summer   Spring   Wind  
    Sonnet 18
  • There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

    Money   Writing   Poetry  
    Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

    Philosopher   Poet   Aim  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.44, Bantam Classics
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