Poetry Quotes

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Communicate Before Poetry Genuine Understood
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost
Words Thought Poetry Emotion Found
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe
Words Beauty Creation Define Would Poetry Brief
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg
Dance Shadow Echo Poetry Asking
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe
Religion Fear Greed Imagination Out Evolved Fraud My Friend Poetry Simply Friend
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
Power Corrupts Man Arrogance Corrupts Diversity Power Poetry Area Toward Reminds Leads Concern Him Limitations His Existence Richness
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Happiness Poetry Highest Sorrow Deepest
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
Emotions Personality Those Only Poetry Emotion Know Course Loose Escape Want Turning Means Who Expression Things
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. Charles Baudelaire
Music Dance Additional Everything Dancing Hidden Poetry Mysterious Merit Arms Reveal Human Being Legs Being Human Palpable
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri
Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
Sense Poem Poetry Throat Wrong Begins Homesickness Lump
Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine Poetry Bottled
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful Music Heart Unhappy Poet Cries Sighs Anguish Poetry Over Beautiful Music Like Pass Sound His Person Lips Formed Them Who Whose Profound
The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
Earth Poetry Never Dead
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Rainer Maria Rilke
Life Daily You Blame Yourself Poet Poverty Enough Seems Poetry Call Poor Forth Riches Your Creator Daily Life
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. Paul Rand
Value Design Add Clarify More Poetry Simplify Simply Prose Perhaps Edit Than Order Transform Meaning Much Modify Persuade Assemble Even Illuminate Amuse
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
Wisdom You Kind Find Poetry Poets Inspiration Prophets Write Deliver Instinct Knowing Messages Without Least Sublime Decided Mean Who
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
Friendship Rare Extremely Poetry Like Real Precious Pearl
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. Adam Braun
Life Love Music Future Communicate Amazing Beauty Our Our Love Pencil Give Life-Changing Poetry Write Untold Equations Amazing Things Uplifting Transcendent Sketch Us Aspirations Things
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth
Feelings Poetry Emotion Takes Powerful Spontaneous Overflow Tranquility Origin
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. James Gates Percival
Music World Dance Living Air Waves Melodies Spirit Poetry Sparkle Full Brightness
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. Alice Walker
Rebellion Revolution Poetry Lifeblood Consciousness Raising
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. Jim Morrison
You Suits Walk Doors Say Possibilities Poetry Through Opens Real Off Any Listen Just Anything
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. Mattie Stepanek
Sad Beautiful Angry Happy People Feelings Other Caring Way Those Poetry Share Beautiful Way Also Them Help Expressing
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
Future Change Architecture Vision Fears Before Our Our Lives Dream Only Poetry Lays Never Been Skeleton Across Bridge Foundations Lives
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
Life Example Flower Poetry Reproduction Eternal
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