English poetry Quote by Patrick Leigh Fermor Download Open image ““[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.”” — Patrick Leigh Fermor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare English poetry Poetry
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.” — Aisha Mirza Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“Often, half in a bay of the mountains and half on a headland, a small and nearly amphibian Schloss mouldered in the failing light… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“These summer nights are short. Going to bed before midnight is unthinkable and talk, wine, moonlight and the warm air are often in league… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Many people have complained that Imagined Communities is a difficult book and especially difficult to translate. The accusation is partly true. But a great… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The concept of an author, the single creative person who gives the text 'authority', only comes later in this period. Most Old English poetry… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
