#poe

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#beauty #poetry #beauty

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. ↗

— Paul Verlaine

#lost #madman #poet

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#concrete #control #feeling #i #language

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#geometry #inventions #poetry #science #sure

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#awhile #humming #keats #only #other

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#feel #go #him #how #looking

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#course #i #just #know #making

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#everything #geometry #invents #may #perfectly

Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her. ↗

— J. Ruth Gendler

#poetic #qualities #ruth-gendler #beauty

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. ↗

— Shane Koyczan

#poetry #stop-signs #beauty