Quotes by Poetry A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White veils poetry doe Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. E. M. Forster august poetry men England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk. E. M. Forster voice poetry waiting Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. Edgar Allan Poe melancholy tone poetry Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe thoughtful poetry beauty With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe passion poetry purpose I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. Edith Södergran poetry way As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell poetry reality art In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature. Edith Sitwell poetry age law The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. Edith Sitwell poetry speak men If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. Edith Sitwell poetry ordinary children A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond de Goncourt stars poetry men it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell poetry use would-be All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart. Edith Sitwell great-poet poetry heart I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. Edith Sitwell greed poetry thinking The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years. Edmund Gosse poetry war years Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. Edith Hamilton pulpit poetry together He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. Edgar Allan Poe oil-and-water mad poetry Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Edmund Spenser flying poetry wings It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax. Edgar Allan Poe poetry may profound «56789101112131415»