Poetry Quotes: Verses to Inspire and Enchant (Page 16)

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either"

"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money"

"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so"

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Writer

"Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse"

Robert W. Service, Poet

"Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different"

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poet

"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not"

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poet

"But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still"

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poet

"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it"

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poet

"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive"

Arnold Palmer, Athlete

"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell"

Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet

"The poetry of the earth is never dead"

John Keats, Poet

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

John Keats, Poet

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance"

John Keats, Poet

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject"

John Keats, Poet

"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together"

Jacques Maritain, Philosopher

"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

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