277 Quotations with Poetry.
- 181. Jean Cocteau: Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays ...

- 182. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Superstition is the poetry of life.

- 183. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Superstition is the poetry of life.

- 184. Sir Walter Scott: Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes th ...

- 185. James F. Cooper: The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this ...

- 186. Ezra Pound: The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy ...

- 187. Robert Graves: The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no ...

- 188. Count Leo Tolstoy: The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only doe ...

- 189. Sylvia Plath: The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

- 190. Henry David Thoreau: The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the ...

- 191. William Hazlitt: The essence of poetry is will and passion.

- 192. Jean Giraudoux: The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seduc ...

- 193. Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and ...

- 194. Frederick W. Robertson: The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

- 195. David Hare: The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth ...

- 196. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and e ...

- 197. William Bolitho: The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializati ...

- 198. Raoul Vaneigem: The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of wor ...

- 199. Walt Whitman: Their manners, speech, dress, friendships -- the freshness and candor of their p ...

- 200. Jean De La Bruyere: There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, pain ...

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