Art Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

— Samuel Johnson

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection…

— Horace

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that can only…

— Jr. Lily

“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

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

— Anonymous

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The poet must be in the right, not only in his esthetic, but in his scientific point of view,”

— Kaiten Nukariya