Famous Quotes
277 Quotations with Poetry.
- 21. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best m ...
- 22. Henry David Thoreau: Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder ...
- 23. William Carlos Williams: But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of t ...
- 24. Michel de Montaigne: We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write ...
- 25. Henry David Thoreau: Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, litera ...
- 26. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a vers ...
- 27. Havelock Ellis: Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher fo ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 31. George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st ...
- 32. Jean Cocteau: I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
- 33. Stephen Leacock: Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poe ...
- 34. Robert Graves: There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
- 35. Oscar Wilde: There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is t ...
- 36. Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- 37. Beverly Nichols: Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaini ...
- 38. James Burke: Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinenc ...
- 39. Louis Kronenberger: The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose ...
- 40. Alfred North Whitehead: Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to tal ...