61) 32190. Keats, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 32190 QUOTATION: Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...
62) 5894. Baudelaire, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 5894 QUOTATION: Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one...
63) 22423. Flaubert, Gustave. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 22423 QUOTATION: Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. ATTRIBUTION: Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), French novelist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Correspondance,...
64) 24123. Fry, Christopher. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 24123 QUOTATION: Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . says heaven and earth in one word . speaks of himself and his predicament...
65) 25027. Ginsberg, Allen. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 25027 QUOTATION: Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private...
66) 26763. Hardy, Thomas. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 26763 QUOTATION: Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928),...
67) 48466. Schlegel, Friedrich Von. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 48466 QUOTATION: The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?...
68) 40586. Moore, Marianne. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 40586 QUOTATION: Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. ATTRIBUTION: Marianne Moore (1887–1972), U.S. poet. first published in Dial, no....
69) 26112. Grillparzer, Franz. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 26112 QUOTATION: 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....
70) 5059. Bachelard, Gaston. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 5059 QUOTATION: Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. ATTRIBUTION: Gaston...
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