List Of Poetry Quotes

What You Feel In Japanese Poetry Is Always Entirely Longing.

Poetry Fettered Fetters The Human Race.

Poetry Should Be Vital--either Stirring Our Blood By Its Divine Movements Or Snatching Our Breath By Its Divine Perfection. To Do Both Is Supreme Glory, To Do Either Is Enduring Fame.

Incompossible, Adj. Unable To Exist If Something Else Exists. Two Things Are Incompossible When The World Of Being Has Scope Enough For One Of Them, But Not Enough For Both - As Walt Whitman's Poetry And God's Mercy To Man.

Poetry, N. A Form Of Expression Peculiar To The Land Beyond The Magazines.

It Is Only When We Are Aware Of The Earth And Of The Earth As Poetry That We Truly Live.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.

Every Authentic Poem Contributes To The Labour Of Poetry... To Bring Together What Life Has Separated Or Violence Has Torn Apart.

The Novel Is Born Of Disillusionment; The Poem, Of Despair.

Prose Is When All The Lines Except The Last Go On To The End. Poetry Is When Some Of Them Fall Short Of It.

All Poetry Is Misrepresentation.

I Will Never Cease Advising My Friends And Enemies To Read Poetry Before Anything.