Sunday, November 25, 2007

16 great quotes(mostly on poetry)

1.Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.-Carl Sandburg
2.Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.-Carl Sandburg
3.Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.-Novalis
4.Poetry:the best words in the same order.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.Poetry is life distilled.-Gwendolyn Brooks
6.Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.-Percy Shelley
7.Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.-Robert Frost
8.Poetry is thoughts that breathe,and words that burn.-Thomas Gray
9.I write poetry in order to live more fully.-Judith Rodriguez
10.Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.-Adrian Mitchell
11.A poem begins with a lump in the throat.-Robert Frost
12.Poetry is truth in Sunday clothes.-Joseph Roux
13.You can't write poetry on the computer.-Quentin Tarantino
14.God is the perfect poet.-Robert Browning
15.Invention----does not consist in creating out of void,but out of chaos.-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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