Angling Quote by Izaak Walton

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...

— Izaak Walton

“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)”

— Anonymous

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry

— Max Beerbohm

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

— Howard Barker

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more…

— William Wordsworth

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in…

— John Drinkwater

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater