Poetry Quote Generator

“ The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. ”

~Bruce Dickinson

“ None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ”

~Edith Hamilton

“ The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. ”

~Raoul Vaneigem

“ There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ”

~Allen Tate

“ Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ”

~Allen Tate

“ I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ”

~Allen Tate