Poetry Cannot Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do. — Mary Szybist
• Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth. — Halldór Laxness
• Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a… — Samuel Johnson
• Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in… — Seamus Heaney
• Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,… — Jacques Maritain
• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for… — William Hazlitt
• The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally… — Samuel Johnson
• In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. — Seamus Heaney

Who Wrote These Poetry Cannot Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 9 Poetry Cannot Quotes as follows:

• 2 Poetry Cannot Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 2 Poetry Cannot Quotes by Seamus Heaney
• 1 Poetry Cannot Quote by Mary Szybist
• 1 Poetry Cannot Quote by Halldór Laxness
• 1 Poetry Cannot Quote by Jacques Maritain
• 1 Poetry Cannot Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Poetry Cannot Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden