Gustave Flaubert on Poetry
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert
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Jean Cocteau on Poetry
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Dennis Gabor on Poetry
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor
Alfred de Musset on Poetry
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
Novalis on Poetry
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis
John Keats on Poetry
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats
Alfred de Musset on Poetry
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
Jean Cocteau on Poetry
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau
Leonard Cohen on Poetry
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
Salman Rushdie on Poetry
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
- Salman Rushdie
