Logo
The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what i

The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Poetry

In many cases these verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and a fragrance not otherwise to be conveyed. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Preface to Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of

Category:
Poetry

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

Category:
Poetry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they arent important. – James Dyson

Category:
Government

People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Acceptance

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Drugs

The one thing you shouldnt do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere. – Jimmy Fallon

Category:
funny