Quotes about Poetry

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

#Desire, #Freedom, #Poetry

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a...

#Judgement, #Poetry

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

#Poetry

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

#Poetry

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

#Poetry

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

#Experience, #Poetry

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as...

#Poetry

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

#Mankind, #Poetry

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact...

#Imagination, #Poetry, #Reality

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

#Philosophy, #Poetry

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

#Mankind, #Poetry, #Speech

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...

#Artist, #Painting, #Poetry