Clear Quote by Andre Breton

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage through the…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what…

— Lisa R. Spaar

It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not…

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the…

— Germaine Greer

“The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the…

— Edmund Wilson

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life,…

— Isaac Rosenberg

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton