Today Quotes
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.T. S. Eliot
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.Orson Welles
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.Michel de Montaigne
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.Plato
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.Frederick William Robertson
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.L. Schefer
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.Henry David Thoreau
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.Voltaire