Poetry - Quotes
Poetry is a very subjective and intimate expression. It`s literally your heartbeat. Your rhythm. The song of your soul. It`s superconcentrated. It`s a dense piece of yourself.
Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities.
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
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's the exact opposite.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
I don`t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
For all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry of it. Fear is poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry, hatred is poetry; contempt, jealousy, remorse, admiration, wonder, pity, despair, or madness are all poetry.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.