Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: poetry

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.