Applause Quotes

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.

The echo of a platitude.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.