poetry Quotes

“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:poetry

“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

topic:truth words poetry

“the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

topic:reality poetry

“‘What is your conception of beauty?’ I said I thought it was an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels – an expression of it can be a dustbin...”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

topic:beauty nature poetry

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

topic:art poetry

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:art feelings poetry

“Poets act shamelessly towards their experiences: they exploit them.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

topic:experience poetry

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:knowledge feeling poetry

“People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:marriage romance poetry

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

topic:life poetry business

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