5 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Poetry

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on poetry

24. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

61. The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

150. The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

153. He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes.

187. 'Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture.'