Fancy Quote by Robert Graves

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like…

— Robert Graves

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

— Anonymous

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only…

— John Ruskin

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

— Philip Sidney

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

— Alexander Girard

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

— Martin Rees

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

— Noam Chomsky