True Poetry Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

• I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists… — Georges Braque
• True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard
• True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale
• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely… — Benjamin Jowett
• True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone. — Claudio Magris
• It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard
• I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than… — Saul Williams
• To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. — Egerton Brydges
• In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing… — Norman MacCaig
• The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,… — William Osler
• Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of… — William Osler
• True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth. — William Faulkner
• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf
• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you… — Aleister Crowley

Who Wrote These True Poetry Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 15 True Poetry Quotes as follows:

• 2 True Poetry Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
• 2 True Poetry Quotes by William Osler
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Georges Braque
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Eugenio Montale
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Benjamin Jowett
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Claudio Magris
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Saul Williams
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Egerton Brydges
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Norman MacCaig
• 1 True Poetry Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 True Poetry Quote by Aleister Crowley