Augustus William Hare Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

  Augustus William Hare

  Flower, Garden, Smell

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.199

• Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

  Augustus William Hare

  Poetry, Done, Poet

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.271

• Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Poetry, Week

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.14

• The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

  Augustus William Hare

  Poetry, Looks, Poet

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.278

• If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

  Augustus William Hare

  Sheep, White, Poetry

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.243

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