“ To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
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“ I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. ”
- Thom Gunn- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ”
- Thom Gunn- Copy
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“ Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation… ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain… ”
- Joyce Kilmer- Copy
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“ No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. ”
- Alfred Austin- Copy
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“ For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry — That is a life. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ”
- Muriel Rukeyser- Copy
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“ I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree..... Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
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“ What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ”
- Harold Bloom- Copy
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“ I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic. ”
- Thom Gunn- Copy
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“ I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ”
- Howard Nemerov- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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