Flood Quote by William Blake

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

— Abraham Coles

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

— J. D. McClatchy

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.”

— Sanober Khan

“The morning of that day, as Gabriel rose and started out to work, the sky was low and nearly black and the air too…

— James Baldwin

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

— Thomas Carlyle

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell