• Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

  Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet 1840-1928
  - +

   0

See all quotes by Thomas Hardy

Subjects in these quotes:

1. acquired
2. measure
3. nature

Similar authors

• Anthony Trollope
  British writer 57
• Agatha Christie
  British writer 49
• Augustus William Hare
  British writer 34
• Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet 33
• Anita Brookner
  British Writer 28
• Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet 26
• Anne Brontë
  British writer 26
• Lewis Carroll
  British Writer, Mathematician 24

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. by : Thomas Hardy

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations