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Poetry Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
- Our best history is still poetry.
- Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and…
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when…
- Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the…
- Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the…
- What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or…
- Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
- Only poetry inspires poetry.
- The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
- Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
- The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
- When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
- After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
- Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
- Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the…
- Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
- Every word was once a poem.
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and…
- Language is fossil Poetry.
- Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes…
- When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the…
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- 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