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"Poetry" Quotes from Famous Books

... suffrage from the people; neither have I much faith in that enthusiasm for the beaux arts, which shows its produce in execrable music, detestable pictures, abominable sculpture, and a droll something that I believe the French call POETRY. Dancing and cookery,—these are the arts the French excel in, I grant it; and excellent things they are; but oh, England! oh, Germany! you need not be ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VI • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give a touch of active realism to all her ...

— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman

... truth of an observation in his Art of Poetry, discussed, i. 134. a passage from him of similar import to one ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) • Edmund Burke

... living convictions, and to keep alive the spirit of honorable devotedness; if you hold it to be a good thing to refine the habits, to embellish the manners, to cultivate the arts of a nation, and to promote the love of poetry, of beauty, and of renown; if you would constitute a people not unfitted to act with power upon all other nations; nor unprepared for those high enterprises, which, whatever be the result of its efforts, will leave a ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... North wind holds the same place in Oriental metaphor and poetry as does the West wind ...

— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume I • Anonymous

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