poetry Quotes

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.