Poetry Quote by Edmund Burke

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

— Henry David Thoreau

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

— Jose Marti

“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven…

— Iain Crichton Smith

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

— Howard Pyle

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into the secure…

— Oscar Wilde

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so…

— Dorianne Laux

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the…

— Gary Snyder

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks…

— D. H. Lawrence

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance…

— Gary Snyder