Epic Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie

“Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.”

— Algernon Blackwood

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

— Samuel Johnson

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

— Jim Jarmusch

On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like…

— Pablo Neruda

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye