Quotes on Poetry
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This thread is on quotes on poetry.
I won't do a quote a day, i'm too lazy for that.
I will try to add on as i go along.
Feel free to add if you have some good ones.
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to start it off :
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
da Vinci is more famous as a painter than a writer, but what the heck, the guy's a genius and should know what he's talking.
To me, poetry is like painting, only you do it with words. -
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Karl Shapiro -
nice quote, Hippo.
Karl Shapiro (1913 - 2000 ), American poet. -
“The poet has no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses.” - the philosopher Socrates
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Does it mean poets are mad?Originally posted by InnoHippo:“The poet has no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses.” - the philosopher Socrates
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For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough) - they are experiences.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), Czech poet.
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I think poetry is about emotions too, but without experiences, one has nothing to write. -
no wonder after thinking so hard, i still can't write any poemsOriginally posted by dsnake1:Does it mean poets are mad? 
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Poets are maggots-infested corpses, especially the dead ones.
Dead Poet (R.I.P.) -
The mind is like the foot, so easily lost in the woods
mine, good enough?? -
Originally posted by DeadPoet:Poets are maggots-infested corpses, especially the dead ones.
Dead Poet (R.I.P.)
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good, good!Originally posted by The man who was death:The mind is like the foot, so easily lost in the woods
mine, good enough?? -
maybe you wrote one but wasn't aware of it !Originally posted by InnoHippo:no wonder after thinking so hard, i still can't write any poems -
That is actually a very positive quote.Originally posted by dsnake1: -
i alsoOriginally posted by DeadPoet:That is actually a very positive quote. -
Ok I'm lost... exactly how are maggots crawling through dead bodies positive?Originally posted by DeadPoet:That is actually a very positive quote. -
Hmm... what about,
Poets are maggots-infested corpses.
Make sense now? -
Originally posted by DeadPoet:
this is getting darker and darker!
Hmm... what about,
Poets are maggots-infested corpses.
Make sense now? -
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valéry ( French poet 1871 - 1945)
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How true. When you are sure that it's done, you have doubts and think that it can be improved upon. -
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
-- Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York state.
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Have you not fallen asleep looking at your tax forms? -
Poets like to follow their inspirations. The difficulty they encounter is in finding the right expressions. One does well when one can skillfully express new ideas, setting forth what has never been said by anyone. But to really qualify as the best, one must be able to portray a scene that is difficult to describe, to make it come alive, as if it stood immediately before oneÂ’s eyes, and moreover, to imply in it meanings infinitely beyond explicit words.
Ouyang Xiu (1007 – 1072) -
DP, that's a very good quote.
translated by you? -
Me not so clever lah.Originally posted by dsnake1:DP, that's a very good quote.
translated by you?
Can't remember where I got it liao.
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A man may be a born poet, but he has to make himself an artist as well. He must master the instrument. Without clarified construction and technical control, no poetical communication can be effective.
Siegfried Sassoon -
'Poetry is essentially a game, with artificial rules, and it takes two- a writer and a reader- to play it. If the reader is reluctant, the game will not work...'
-Nancy R. Comley
p/s: hi all. this is my very first post in DPS -
Originally posted by dsnake1:
yeah, mine are sitting in my hard drive waiting for revisions that will never come.
[b]A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valéry ( French poet 1871 - 1945)
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How true. When you are sure that it's done, you have doubts and think that it can be improved upon. [/b]