Quotations About Poetry
Noiselessly as the spring-time Her crown of verdure weaves,
Cecil Frances Alexander
The Burial of Moses
The Burial of Moses
Spring is like a perhaps hand
E.E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand
Spring is like a perhaps hand
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches-
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
Spring and All
You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
Simmons Review, Fall 1962
Simmons Review, Fall 1962
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
Love's Body
Love's Body
Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
How to Study Poetry
How to Study Poetry
There will be a world of water shed Upon the parting of your wives and you.
William Shakespeare
Glendower, in Henry IV
Glendower, in Henry IV
Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Nicholas Breton
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Each to his grief, each to his loneliness and fidgety revenge.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Boy Breaking Glass
Boy Breaking Glass
Fresh Spring, the herald of love's mighty king,
Edmund Spenser
Amoretti; LXX. Fresh Spring
Amoretti; LXX. Fresh Spring
A light exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period.
Emily Dickinson
A light exists in spring
A light exists in spring
Spring is the Period Express from God.
Emily Dickinson
"Spring is the Period"
"Spring is the Period"
Spring is here. Why doesn't my heart go dancing?
Lorenz Hart
"Spring Is Here,"
"Spring Is Here,"
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Jonathan Swift