Poetic Genius Quotes

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

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

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a poet of India to be kept limited to Bengal. Everybody should read and celebrate him.

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

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.