Beauty Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

— Jennifer Stone

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect…

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth