31 quotes
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
— John Keats
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
— Emily Dickinson
“I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river with wonder as its midwife”
— Pablo Neruda
“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
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
— Lord Byron
“A great hope fell, you heard no noise, the ruin was within.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.”
— Alexander Pope
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“To write poetry one must bring full attention to the task”
— Jane Hirshfield
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry and creativity.”
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry”
— John Cage
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“A poet is a painter of the soul.”
— Molière
“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”
— Arthur Rimbaud
“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.”
— Thomas Mann
“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”
— Jean Cocteau
“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Creativity erodes all barriers.”
— Adrienne Rich
— Khalil Gibran
“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
“What is poetry which does not save nations or people”
— Czeslaw Milosz
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems like notes that shape music”
— Joan Miro
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