Faults Quote by Horace

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence,…

— Isaac D'Israeli

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to…

— Taylor Mali

“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

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

— Donald Hall

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests…

— Anthony Trollope

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would…

— C.S. Lewis