POETRY QUOTES XIII

quotations about poetry

Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er,
Scatters from her pictur'd urn
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

THOMAS GRAY

The Poems

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

The New York Times, May 12, 1985

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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Essays in Criticism, Second Series

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