Sentences with Poet, Sentences about Poet
1. Tommy can write poetry very well.
2. Poets are not so scrupulous as you are.
3. Frank was a famous poet and a competent diplomat.
4. Mary writes essays in addition to novels and poetry.
5. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
6. To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
7. I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it.
8. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
9. You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.
10. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
11. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
12. It’s just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
13. Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
14. He consorted with prostitutes and poets…and with persons even worse.
15. There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
16. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
17. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
18. I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all.
19. Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
20. I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
21. Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
22. When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.
23. What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
24. When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
25. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
26. Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
27. As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
28. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.
29. Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
30. Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
31. With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
32. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
33. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
34. Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
35. We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
36. Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
37. The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
38. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
39. Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
40. In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
41. Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
42. Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.
43. There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
44. I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
45. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
46. Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
47. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
48. The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
49. Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
50. But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
51. What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
52. Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
53. I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
54. Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
55. I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
56. I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
57. I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
58. One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
59. Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
60. But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
61. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
