Poetry Quotes - Page 14

• The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Poet, Creation, Poetry Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Writing, Literature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.174, Delphi Classics

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• Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Inspire, Soul

  Matthew Arnold, Gillian Sutherland (1973). “Matthew Arnold on education”, Penguin Books

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• All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Great Poet, Great Poetry

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• He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Learning, Knowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Curiosity, Mind, Events

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

  John Keats

  Writing, Soul, Doe

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 224

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• The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Doe, Tasks

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• 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.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Meaningful, Writing, Men

  1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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• I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

  Archilochus

  Art, Hurt, Warrior

  "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

  Nicanor Parra

  Country, Usa, Liberty

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• Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

  Oodgeroo Noonuccal

  Past, History, Aboriginal

  Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• I have so much of you in my heart.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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• Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Loving Someone, Small Talk

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

  Countee Cullen

  Hurt, Truth, African American

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• The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of  love.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Love, Dream, Stars

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• Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Change, Music, Dance

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• Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Music, Silence, African American

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• If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Country, Tree, Olives

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