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