His Poetry Quotes
22 His Poetry quotes by 22 unique authors
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel.…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems;…
— Stephen Burt
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Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no…
— John Hollander
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He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it…
— Subramanya Bharathi
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly…
— Unknown Author
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I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his…
— Thom Gunn
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
— Hunter S. Thompson
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even…
— John Drinkwater
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would…
— Lady Gregory
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate…
— Cassandra Clare
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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, the…
— Meg Rosoff
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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
— Alice Munro
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I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing…
— Trevor Dunn
Who Wrote These His Poetry Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 His Poetry Quotes as follows: