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

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. – A. R. Ammons

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

Category:
Poetry

Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, Im much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. – Marguerite Young

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where Im reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away. – Kelly Clarkson

Category:
Peace

If you cant spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker. – Matt Damon

Category:
Sports :: Poker

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. – John Haynes Holmes

Category:
Society

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck

Category:
Romantic