Carriages Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Let the poet always walk thus

— Anonymous

“he was walking poetry, a walking poem”

— Bemy Wells

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

“The rhythm," said Goethe, "is an unconscious result of the poetic mood. If one should stop to consider it mechanically, when about to write…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

— Linda Hogan

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it…

— Denise Levertov

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

“Poetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and when the…

— William H. Gass

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles…

— Alysha Speer