Beauty Quote by Lewis Hyde

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

— Jack London

“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies…

— Robert Graves

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

— Karl Kraus

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

— Horace

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

— Jack London

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

— Mary Caroline Richards

“Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain he really…

— FERNANDO PESSOA

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

— Austin O'Malley

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

— Khalil Gibran

“The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let…

— Terry Eagleton