Poetry Quote by Horace

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

— Olaf Stapledon

“Now it is very striking, and well worth investigating, that such trifling, nay, apparently childish, means as metre and rhyme produce so powerful an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing…

— E. E. Cummings

“May Hegel's philosophy of absolute nonsense - three-fourths cash and one-fourth crazy fancies - continue to pass for unfathomable wisdom without anyone suggesting as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do…

— Anonymous

That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances…

— Walter Pater

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

— Sallust

Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

— Charles Baudelaire

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

— Moliere

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To a poet nothing can be useless

— Samuel Johnson