Poetry
Arnold Lobel on Books
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” Arnold Lobel
Robert Frost on Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” Robert Frost
Paul Dirac on Science and Poetry
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” Paul Dirac English physicist in US (1902 – 1984)
Horace on Poetry
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Horace
W. H. Auden on Poetry
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” W. H. Auden
Rene Char on Poetry
“A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.” Rene Char
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Paul Valery
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” William Shakespeare
Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.” Adrian Mitchell