You like poetry, don't you? After all, it's always been a great way to impress the ladies. But do you know who said what about poetry?"The fool wonders, the wise man asks." -Benjamin Disraeli
Quiz created by: Bill Graves
1. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
2. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
3. A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
4. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
5. Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
6. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
7. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
8. Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
9. Poetry: the best words in the best order.
10. To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
