If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury 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
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
