Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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Quote:- Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.
Forced Entries- The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973
Author:- Jim Carroll
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.
The Magus
Author:- John Fowles
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Sand and Foam
Author:- Khalil Gibran
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
A Poetry Handbook
Author:- Mary Oliver
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted
Author:- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
Poetry as Insurgent Art
Author:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
Author:- Boris Pasternak
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
Author:- Michael Oakeshott
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape, perhaps intelligent, perhaps idiotic, from a senile situation. It is a dialectical movement, it keeps tearing open the wounds while trying to heal them. Here we see the only acceptable path open up towards an existence worthy of human beings. Here the seriousness is unfaltering and absolute. Where it will lead no one knows.
Author:- Aase Berg
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
Author:- Pablo Neruda
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Sculpting in Time
Author:- Andrei Tarkovsky
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.
The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry
Author:- Dorianne Laux
Category:- poetry