#poetry

31 quotes

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

— E.E. Cummings

#love #radiance #joy

“The dew of compassion is a tear.”

— Lord Byron

#compassion #tears #emotion

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry”

— John Cage

#beauty #silence #poetry

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#nature #trees #poetry

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#gratitude #nature #poetry

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.”

— Alexander Pope

#hope #human nature #optimism

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

#nature #poetry #earth

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

— John Keats

#beauty #joy #permanence

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

#nature #poetry #earth

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

— Plato

#love #poetry #transformation

“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”

— Emily Dickinson

#resilience #pain #strength

“What is poetry which does not save nations or people”

— Czeslaw Milosz

#solitude #poetry #salvation

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry”

— John Cage

#creativity #silence #poetry

“A poet is a painter of the soul.”

— Molière

#poetry #soul #art

“A great hope fell, you heard no noise, the ruin was within.”

— Emily Dickinson

#hope #loss #inner life

“I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river with wonder as its midwife”

— Pablo Neruda

#wonder #poetry #birth

“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

#peace #creativity #poetry

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

— Plato

#love #poetry #transformation

“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Creativity erodes all barriers.”

— Adrienne Rich

#creativity #poetry #persistence

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.”

— Thomas Mann

#solitude #creativity #beauty

“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dream #passion #poetry

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems like notes that shape music”

— Joan Miro

#beauty #color #poetry

“To write poetry one must bring full attention to the task”

— Jane Hirshfield

#solitude #attention #poetry

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”

— Emily Dickinson

#hope #soul #poetry

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

#nature #poetry #earth

“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”

— Jean Cocteau

#poetry #listening #creativity

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry and creativity.”

— Emily Dickinson

#creativity #poetry #sensation

“Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#wonder #stars #night

“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there through creativity.”

— William Carlos Williams

#creativity #poetry #necessity

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

— Khalil Gibran

#nature #trees #poetry

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

— Emily Dickinson

#hope #soul #poetry

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