Poetics Quote by Alicia Ostriker

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

— William Blake

“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of…

— Socrates

“a poetry express dreamer man of action, his every line thinking about. thinking about a woman.”

— Tom Phillips

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

“Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with…

— Walt Whitman

“Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul.”

— Gaston Bachelard

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

“God has his poets; they let him dream.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.”

— Martin Luther

“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art, drawing me…

— Patti Smith

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila