The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
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