Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
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 woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
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