#poetry

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#balance sheets #cannot #men #poetry #read

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#events #feel #feelings #journalism #look

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#enjoy #even #mind #perhaps #person

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#almost #civilization #declines #necessarily #poetry

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. ↗

— Bette Midler

#me #music #poetry #rap #set

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#eternal #example #flower #life #poetry

Poetry is composing for the breath. ↗

— Peter Davison

#composing #poetry

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: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair’d the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#poetry #beauty

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even