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Poetry

«Judge not my passion, by my want of skill,Many love well, though they express it ill.»
Author: Anne Finch | About: Love, Poetry
«Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'»
Author: Cesare Lombroso (Founder) | About: Poetry | Keywords: Klopstock, questioned
«I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree»
Author: Joyce Kilmer (Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: poem, poems
«Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.»
«I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.»
Author: Roy Croft | About: Love, Poetry | Keywords: bring, bring out, I Love You, making, not only, part
«I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.»
«Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard»
«Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments»
«Language is fossil poetry»
«I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.»

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