What did Countee Cullen mean by: My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. - Countee Cullen Poet · USA Copy
+ Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Countee Cullen, Black, Curious, Poet, 0 - Countee Cullen Poet · USA
+ Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Countee Cullen, Grace, Life And Death, 0 - Countee Cullen Poet · USA
+ The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Countee Cullen, Dark, Night, Stars, 0 - Countee Cullen Poet · USA
+ The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Countee Cullen, Loss, Love, Lying, 0 - Countee Cullen Poet · USA
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria