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Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. - Robert Gilfillan What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. - Augustus William Hare Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it. - William Hazlitt (1) The essence of poetry is will and passion. - William Hazlitt (1) Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. - Heinrich Heine To write a verse or two, is all the praise That I can raise. - George Herbert, The Church--Praise A verse may finde him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. - George Herbert, The Temple--The Church Porch An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe; but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing; by Heaven and Heaven alone, The genuine seed of poesy are sown. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 382), (Pope's translation) Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (322) Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature. [Lat., Ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit, Aut humana parum cavit natura.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (351) Let your poem be kept nine years. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (388) A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (89) It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting. [Lat., Non satis est pulchra esse poemata, dulcia sunto.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (99) In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the "bonny gem" in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. - Henry Norman Hudson Poetry is the breath of beauty. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. - Washington Irving I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Parody of the style of Thomas Warton The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), The Lives of the English Poets--Life of Waller Displaying page 4 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9
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