Logo
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is th

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. – W. Somerset Maugham

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch

Category:
Poetry

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together. – Nikki Giovanni

Category:
Poetry

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan

Category:
Poetry

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. – Maxine Hong Kingston

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? – John Edward Masefield

Category:
Mystery

Poetrys always dead, you know? You dont realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. – Richard Hell

Category:
Poetry

I can think of some things that would be fun, but Im living my dreams. – Mike Farrell

Category:
Dreams

A mans sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. – Leland Stanford

Category:
best