“I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.”
Walt Whitman
“God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.”
William Wordsworth
“Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares! – The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs, Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.”
William Wordsworth
“Cursed be the verse, how well so e’er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.”
Alexander Pope
“Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian’s so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”
Alexander Pope
“Olympian bards who sung, Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Round and round, like a dance of snow, In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go, Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet’s pages.”
Robert Browning