Great Poetry Quotes

16 Great Poetry quotes by 16 unique authors

Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor… — Richard Livingstone
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?… — Edward Abbey
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold… — Fernando Pessoa
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of… — Laura Marling
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even… — Diane Wakoski
I'm not a great poetry fan. — Rupert Everett
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate. — James Fenton
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of… — Milan Kundera
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to… — Thornton Wilder
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender
I think great poetry is enormously powerful. — Michael Cunningham

Who Wrote These Great Poetry Quotes

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