Quotes by Poetry Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson poetry weight bears A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. Anne Stevenson poetry feelings thinking I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Anthony Hope poetry ignorance wish Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. Antoine de Saint-Exupery poetry soul men Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. Antonin Artaud drug poetry war A poem should not mean but be. Archibald MacLeish poetry should mean A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish fruit poetry should Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle philosophical poetry history The difference between poetry and rhetoric Audre Lorde differences poetry children Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame. Augustine Birrell poetry perfection blood The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? Augustus William Hare poet poetry looks Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. Augustus William Hare week poetry philosophy If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets. Augustus William Hare poetry white sheep Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. Augustus William Hare poet poetry done Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. Babette Deutsch poetry important reality The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world. Babette Deutsch speaks-out poetry men Who, except the poets, reads poetry? Babette Deutsch poet poetry There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry. Babette Deutsch poetry grief ends I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day. Barbara Kingsolver poetry summer thinking The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. Barbara Tuchman poetry history people «1234567891011»