Poetry Quotes
"It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed,
the deeper they burn"
-Robert Southey-
"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence,
who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling.
If we do not cherish him,
he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."
-Kahlil Gibran-, "The Poet of Baalbek"
"Every word was once a poem"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allen Poe-
"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."
-Max Eastman-
"Poetry is not an expression of the party line.
It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,
making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
-Allen Ginsberg-
"Poetry is an orphan of silence.
The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
-Charles Simic-
"The sound must seem an echo to the sense."
-Alexander Pope-
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another.
One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
-Charles Peguy-
"Many people hear voices when no one is there.
Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day.
Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing."
-Margaret Chittenden-
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
-Henry Brooks Adams-
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