Chagrin Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“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

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and…

— Louisa May Alcott

“(Quoting Goethe :) "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the…

— James Howe

“Renunciation, The Natural Daughter demonstrates, is the act of those who believe that their happiness is dependent on a power beyond their control which…

— Nicholas Boyle

“Eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote: Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always…

— Verusha Singh

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that…

— Anthony Hecht

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only…

— John Ruskin

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work…

— Helen Vendler

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire