Quotes by Poetry Still may syllables jar with time, Ben Jonson poetry may war In a notable family called Stein Bennett Cerf crazy poetry writing In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry. Bertrand Russell daughter poetry men What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? Bharati Mukherjee poetry mind children Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. Billy Bragg guilt poetry answers How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. Billy Cannon poet poetry simple One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else. Billy Collins differences poetry self A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. Bob Dylan naked poetry people You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. Bob Dylan forgive-me poetry artist Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Bob Dylan coal poetry soul Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes. Bob Dylan cages capes poetry When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers. Brian Patten clothes poetry sight Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat. Bruce Springsteen teenage poetry summer Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams poetry wish way A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal. C. S. Lewis poetry doe art A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one. C. S. Lewis poetry literature art Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia poetry links mind Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Carl Sandburg closing-up poetry doors Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg invisible poetry writing Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Carl Sandburg syllables barriers poetry «1234567891011»