Quotes by Poetry Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Georges Braque painting poetry men The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions. Gerald Brenan poetry race literature Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter. Germaine Greer poetry reality art I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. Gerard Manley Hopkins poetry literature writing Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. Giannina Braschi distance poetry way Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. George Santayana ancient poetry long Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency. Gilles Deleuze consistency poetry writing Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing Gertrude Stein nouns poetry doe Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein poetry The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. George Orwell poetry literature water When I said. Gertrude Stein nouns poetry rose Poetry is a dangerous gift. Grace Aguilar dangerous poetry-is poetry Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. Gregory Corso poetry power waiting There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it Gustave Flaubert poetry inspirational life Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert poetry literature may Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. Gwen Harwood philosophical poetry fun Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily Gwendolyn B. Bennett music silence poetry How wide is all this long pretense! George Herbert sweetness poetry long As flames do work and wind when they ascend, George Herbert flames poetry wind My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. Groucho Marx september-11 poetry inspiration «910111213141516171819»