Poetry Quotes

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.