Brain Quote by Annie Proulx

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved,…

— Meg Rosoff

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

— Anonymous

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery…

— Elizabeth Hand

“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody…

— Diana Georgeff

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles…

— Alysha Speer