top of page
"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation."
Standard
Customized
More

"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
Author Name
Personal Development

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!"
Author Name
Personal Development

"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,-a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"His foe was folly and his weapon wit."
Wit

"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
Genius

"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
Genius

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation."
Poetry

"Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?"
Truth

"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
Understanding

"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
Temptation
bottom of page