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