Books Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

— Sherman Alexie

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis

“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry which was…

— C.S. Lewis

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit…

— Rae Armantrout

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd…

— Walt Whitman

a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible:…

— e. e. cummings