Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
Poetry often enters through the window o…
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
Quote, saying and phrase by: M. C. Richards
Poetry is what gets lost in translation….
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Robert Frost
Poetry is the lava of the imagination wh…
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Lord Byron
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all fr…
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Poetry is certainly something more than …
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The word…
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Charles Simic
Politicians are people who, when they se…
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Quinton
Politicians are interested in people. No…
Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
Quote, saying and phrase by: P. J. O’Rourke
Political image is like mixing cement. W…
Political image is like mixing cement. When it’s wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there’s almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Walter Frederick Mondale