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December 22nd 2007 01:39
Quotes by Famous Poets
"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science." - Sigmund Freud
I just did a post of quotes by famous artists over on world art.com and it was so uplifting I thought I would continue here. It’s strange, many I have read before and remember but they seem to gain new power when shared with others.
Aiding in our struggle to achieve meager goals of creative expression through the written word, these are a selection of observations made by those who accomplished their dream of artistic independence.
I hope they inspire you over the festive season, Merry Christmas all.
Plato
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." - Plato
“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.” – Emily Dickinson
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.” – Lord Byron
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." - Robert Graves
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” – C S Lewis
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost
"Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." - Aristotle
“Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were” – John Donne
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
"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
"A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more." - Horace Walpole
"One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves." - W. H. Auden
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Comment by Jeanne Dininni
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An impressive collection of poetic quotes! Thanks for sharing!
Merry Christmas!
Jeanne
Comment by Lilla
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As a part-time poet myself, I gotta love that Lord Byron or cluey Keats... as I do them all, and if this post has the ability to turn orblers back from the edge of bickering political fools, then they have again served us well.
Thank you for sharing so much true inspiration.
Lilla ...
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