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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.

by Walter Mosley Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all read more

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

by Paul Engle Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

by John Keats Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

by William Butler Yeats Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

by Carl Sandburg Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

by Voltaire Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

by Novalis Found in: Poetry Quotes,
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