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Poem · Epic poem

Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 8.2

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

23 BC

★ 7.1

To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

Stephane Mallarme

1891

★ 5.1

Prose is for ideas, Verse is for visions.

1871

★ 3.7

To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft · 1951

★ 3.7

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

1963

★ 3.6

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion and medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 3.6

As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1825

★ 3.5

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

Archibald MacLeish

1926

★ 3.5

A truly exciting poem has something evasive or mysterious at the core, and it succeeds in suggesting to us that the core is essential to our being.

1979

★ 3.5

Poetry is the expression, in human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysterious meaning of the aspects of existence: in this way it confers authenticity on our time on earth and constitutes the only spiritual task there is.

Stephane Mallarme

1884

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

There were poets before Homer.

Brutus · 46 BC

★ 2.2

If you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself.

Ars Poetica · 19 BC

★ 2.2

Autobiography and memoir

For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

1940

★ 2.2

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Poets...tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

A Treatise of Human Nature · 1739

★ 2.1

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Epistles · 20 BC

★ 2.0

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Defense of Poetry · 1822

★ 2.0

Prose = words in their best order;-poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 2.0

I did not come here to solve anything. I came to sing, And for you to sing with me.

1948

★ 2.0

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

1802

★ 1.9

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