Poetry(71)

"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life."
William Hazlitt

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
Horace

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
A. E. Housman

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

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
Joseph Joubert

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
John Keats

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
Eli Khamarov

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
Thomas B. Macaulay

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Don Marquis

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Marianne Moore