Poetry Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.”

— Shannon Phillips

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Anyone wanting to get a sense of human nature in, say, the Bronze Age can do no better than to excavate among the words…

— David P. Barash

“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning