Quotes by Hardy, Thomas

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. >>

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no >>

Time changes everything except something within us which is always sur >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; >>

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one' >>

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, bu >>

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Hardy, Thomas