Poetry (quotations)

By prof.Abdelhamid Fouda 

1. Poetry is not only pleasant but also useful for man and society. ( Aristotle)

2. If you want to make poetry practical then it will not remain poetry. (Seamus Heaney)

3. Poetry is a condition not a profession. (Robert Frost)

4. Poetry is not the turning loose of emotions but an escape from emotions, it is not the impression of personality but an escape from personality. (T.S.Eliot) 

5. A poet is not a teacher but preacher. (John Keats)

6. Poetry is a violence from within , which protects us from the violence without. (Wallace Stevens)

7. Poetry should be great and obtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul , it should not startle it or maze it by itself but with its subject. (John Keats)

8. Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of strong feelings. A poet gets 'Catharsis' through his poetry. (William Wordsworth)

9. Poetry is most philosophical of all writings,the breath and finer spirit of all writings. (William Wordsworth)

10. It is not the function of poetry to relate what is happened but what may happen. (Aristotle & Heaney)

11. Poetry is not concerned so much with what is but with what ought to be. (Aristotle)

12. Reparation of satisfaction or compensation for a wrong sustained or the loss resulting from this. ( Heaney)

13. Heaney has the most flexible and beautiful lyric voice of our age, and his prose often answers his poetry in a run of subtle and subtly resonant phrasing. (William Logon)

14. Poetry cannot afford to loss its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness. (Seamus Heaney)

15. I want to profess the surprise of poetry as well as its reliability. (Heaney)

16. The movement is from delight to wisdom and not vice versa. (Redress of Poetrt)

17. The poets have no knowledge of truth, since they imitate only appearances. (Plato)

18. Every poet is an imitator and therefore all imitators are twice away from the truth. (Plato)

19. Though, poetry is a flight of imaginations yet its ultimate purpose is to give a moral lesson and reveal the reality in the best possible way. (Seamus Heaney)

20. Poetry gives us moral with pleasure. (Heaney)

21. Poetry is the alleviating function of reality.

22. Life worries man, poetry relives man.

23. Poetry takes us to paradise while we stay on earth.

24. This world is a labyrinth where man is lost, poetry shows us the right way.

25. Poetry gives us idealized version of reality.

26. Poetry is the real picture of perfection.

27. Poetry cannot bring political change, it tries to change the mind. It never gives straight facts but inspires people to bring change.

28. Poetry builds for us the world if aspiration.

29. God loves the sinner and man gets closer to God because of his sin. This is the reality of human life and pressnted beautifully by the poet "Herbert " in " The Collar".

30. It is Poetry which has the real motive power in life.