| Author |
Quotes |
| William Butler Yeats | Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric, of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. |
| Charles Dickens | Why then we should drop into poetry. |
| Edmund Burke | Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. |
| Oscar Wilde | A poet can survive everything but a misprint. |
| Oscar Wilde | All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. |
| Philip James Bailey | Poetry is itself a thing of God, He made his prophets poets,and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,--under-makers. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The true poem is the poet's mind. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The finest poetry was first experience. |
| Robert Browning | God is the perfect poet. |
| Samuel Butler | For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. |
| Samuel Johnson | Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Prose,words in their best order,,poetry,the best words in their best order. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. |
| Thomas Carlyle | 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. |
| William Cowper | Made poetry a mere mechanic art. |
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