Chairs Quote by Terry Pratchett

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

— Dana Gould

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the…

— Philip Larkin

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

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

— Plato

“They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely, but not…

— Shaemus O'Sheel

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have…

— Jack Prelutsky

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable,…

— Seneca the Younger

“Epochs later, the curtains grew dusty and brittle, the deep, vicious colour of a bruise. The floorboards creaked and we were civilized. We were…

— Brenna Yovanoff

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

— Allen Ginsberg

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton