Poetry Life Quotes
Poetry Life Quote of the day
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.
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.
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
poems are small moments of enlightenment
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.