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Every old poem is sacred.
-Horace
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
-Horace
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
-Horace
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
-Elbert Hubbard
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The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.
-Aldous Huxley
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A good poet's made as well as born.
-Ben Johnson
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
-Joseph Joubert
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
-James Joyce
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-Franz Kafka
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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
-Stephan Kanfer
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
-John Keats
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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
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When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the songs that must be sung.
-Joyce Kilmer
Old Poets Kilmer died at the age of 32 in WW I
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
-Walter Savage Landor
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
-James Russell Lowell
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
-Stephane Mallarme
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There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.
-Stephane Mallarme
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
-Don Marquis
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
-Don Marquis
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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
-Philip Massinger
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Poets are born, not paid.
-Addison Mizner
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Books about Poetry
