Quotes About Unity

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.