“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”– Gaston Bachelard Related Quotes “For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.”– Edward Dowden “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”– Oscar Wilde “Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.”– Elia Kazan