Poetry Quote Generator

“ Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ”

~John Masefield

“ Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ”

~Karl Shapiro

“ Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. ”

~Jacques Maritain

“ And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. ”

~Hart Crane

“ To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. ”

~Laura Riding

“ The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ”

~Laura Riding