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Poetry Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
- Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
- Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then…
- The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a…
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not…
- Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only…
More Poetry Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden