Famous Quotes
277 Quotations with Poetry.
- 41. Henrik Ibsen: Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
- 42. John F. Kennedy: When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richnes ...
- 43. Robert Ranke Graves: There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.
- 44. John Masefield: Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of ...
- 45. R.Z. Sheppard: Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
- 46. Donald E. Knuth: The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractiv ...
- 47. G. K. Chesterton: All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- 48. Lewis Thomas: We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we r ...
- 49. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture e ...
- 50. T.S. Eliot: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- 51. M. C. Richards: Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
- 52. Simonides: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
- 53. Lord Byron: Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
- 54. Socrates: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but ...
- 55. Jim Morrison: If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited w ...
- 56. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and need ...
- 57. E.C. Stedman: Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hard ...
- 58. John Adams: I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics ...
- 59. Mario Cuomo: You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
- 60. Charles Baudelaire: Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an inst ...