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Poetry Quotes

"All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold."

"“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A... Read More "

Dreaming is the poetry of Life and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

"I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing."

"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other... Read More "

My dream was to be a scientist but it turns out to be poetic scientific awakener.

"Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not a poet. "

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

"Music resembles poetry, in each are nameless graces which no methods teach, and which a master hand alone can reach. "

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the... Read More "

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately , and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

The true poet dreams being awake.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

"Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals."

"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."