poetry QUOTES

1 " Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very " poetry of his soul" .Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time. "

2 " Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot. "

― E.A. Bucchianeri , Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, (Gadfly Saga, #1)

3 " And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world. "

― Anaïs Nin , Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

4 " If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. "

― Charles Darwin , The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

5 " And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love. "

― Nicholas Sparks

6 " There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it "

― Gustave Flaubert

7 " To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. "

― Osho

8 " Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

― Renee Carlino , Before We Were Strangers

9 " The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

10 " Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. " What?" " I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random. "

11 " Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. "

― Jasper Fforde , First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

12 " A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. "

― Aberjhani , Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

13 " A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which a man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of human is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for the brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way-an honorable way-in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words," The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory. "

14 " The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. "

― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space

15 " The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. "

― Mark Twain

16 " Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth. "

― Amit Ray

17 " Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment " seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom, one and the same thing: that the world is plumb and sound; that everything comes to its appointed goal; that in spite of all appearances, underlying all things is - peace, salvation, gloria; that nothing and no one is lost; that " God holds in his hand the beginning, middle, and end of all that is." Such nonrational, intuitive certainties of the divine base of all that is can be vouchsafed to our gaze even when it is turned toward the most insignificant-looking things, if only it is a gaze inspired by love. That, in the precise sense, is contemplation...Out of this kind of contemplation of the created world arise in never-ending wealth all true poetry and all real art, for it is the nature of poetry and art to be paean and praise heard above all the wails of lamentation. No one who is not capable of such contemplation can grasp poetry in a poetic fashion, that is to say, in the only meaningful fashion. The indispensability, the vital function of the arts in man's life, consists above all in this: that through them contemplation of the created world is kept alive and active. "

18 " If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's. "

― Johan Huizinga , Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

19 " Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. "

― John Galsworthy , Five Speeches to P.E.N. Clubs and a Letter

20 " Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. "

― Amy Leigh Mercree

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