(1267 quotes found)
“There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”
Paul Dirac
“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.”
Joshua Logan
“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”
William Faulkner
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Emily Dickinson
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
John Muir
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost
