#poetry

Superstition is the poetry of life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#poetry #superstition

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#easy #everywhere #looking #paper #poetry

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. ↗

— Phyllis Gotlieb

#certainly #comes #go #gods #hell

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ↗

— Robert Graves

#either #money #then

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#art #differ #excursion #goal #journey

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deep #deep feeling #feeling #good #help

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#definition #old #poetry #teacher #understand

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers