Poetic Brilliance Quotes

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

The glory of a next Augustan age A golden age of poetry and power Of which this noonday’s the beginning hour.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate A golden age of poetry and power Of which this noonday's the beginning hour.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.