Great poetry Quote by Robert Penn Warren

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between…

— Ben Lerner

“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

— Edith Sitwell

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

— Robinson Jeffers

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

— Robert Penn Warren

When are we going to be together? Will you love me now or will it take forever? I Love you always with all my…

— Archie

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton