Poetry Quote by C.S. Lewis Download Open image ““Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.”” — C.S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
