3 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Poetry

Thomas Carlyle quotes on poetry

7. He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

19. A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

27. There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.