Donne Quote by T. S. Eliot

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that,…

— Henry James

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The poet thinks with his poem...”

— William Carlos Williams

“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were! In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our…

— Virginia Woolf

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…

— Clifton Fadiman

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles…

— Manmohan Acharya

“And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours—like the hands of dyers.”

— George Gordon Byron