🌻 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES 🌻
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
➺ Robert Frost |
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
➺ Oscar Wilde |
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
➺ Socrates
➺ Socrates
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
➺ Aristotle |
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
➺ Plato |
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
➺ John F. Kennedy
➺ John F. Kennedy
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
➺ Robert Frost |
"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."
➺ Edgar Allan Poe |
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
➺ T. S. Eliot
➺ T. S. Eliot
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
➺ Samuel Johnson |
"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
➺ Bob Dylan |
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as signs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
➺ Soren Kierkegaard
➺ Soren Kierkegaard
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
➺ William Wordsworth |
"If my poetry is to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
➺ Jim Morrison |
"Poetry should...should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
➺ John Keats
➺ John Keats
"God is the perfect poet."
➺ Robert Browning |
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
➺ Plutarch |
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change. a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
➺ Audre Lorde
➺ Audre Lorde
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
➺ Percy Bysshe Shelley |
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
➺ Percy Bysshe Shelley |
"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."
➺ Niels Bohr
➺ Niels Bohr
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
➺ Carl Sandburg |
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
➺ Gustave Flaubert |
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
➺ Seamus Heaney
➺ Seamus Heaney
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
➺ Carl Sandburg |
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
➺ Octavio Paz |
"A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away."
➺ Ivan Turgenev
➺ Ivan Turgenev
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
➺ Jean Cocteau |
"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."
➺ Muriel Rukeyser |
"Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry."
➺ Maya Angelou
➺ Maya Angelou
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