Quotes about Poetry
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
by George Sand (Novelist, French , born in 1804) keywords: delights, draws, his, life, line, never, noble, poet, poetry, sentiments, though, true , written Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
by Carl Sandburg (Poet, American , born in 1878) keywords: away, go, how, made, phantom, poetry, rainbows, script, telling , why Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
by Carl Sandburg (Poet, American , born in 1878) keywords: air, animal, away, barriers, fly, go, how, journal, land, living, made, phantom, poetry, rainbows, script, sea, search, shoot, syllables, telling, unknowable, unknown, wanting , why Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
by Carl Sandburg (Poet, American , born in 1878) keywords: closing, door, during, guess, leaving, look, moment, opening, poetry, seen, those , through Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
by Charles Simic (Poet, American , born in 1938) keywords: behind, equal, experience, never, orphan, poetry, quite, silence, them , words The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
by Lionel Trilling (Critic, American , born in 1905) keywords: also, barometer, forget, may, part, poet, us, used , weather One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: deny, few, fewer, merit, more, persons, poetry, prose, says, than, will , words The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
by Robert Penn Warren (Novelist, American , born in 1905) keywords: capacity, end, life, light, little, making, man, may, meaningful, myth, poem, rather, see, thing , which
