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Quotes By subject - Starting with P - Poetry

There are 22 quotes for the subject Poetry

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Author: Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Author: Plato

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Author: Paul Valery

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Author: Oscar Wilde

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
Author: Walt Whitman

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Author: John F. Kennedy

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
Author: John Keats

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Author: Oscar Wilde

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Author: Anonymous

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Author: Horace

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Author: Jean Cocteau

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Author: Samuel Johnson

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Author: G. K. Chesterton

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Author: Oscar Wilde

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Author: G. K. Chesterton

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Author: Robert Graves

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Author: Oscar Wilde

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Author: Samuel McChord Crothers

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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