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Quotes About Essence

Love as is love is the oxygen of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Shine from within, your soul is your light.
~ Debasish Mridha
Live within and without your core of being.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Perfection isn't something that we can see and it isn't something that we can touch, but it exists here on Earth.It resides in each and everyone of us within our hearts.It's called LOVE!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
~ Gustave Flaubert
Whatever is not stone is light
~ Octavio Paz
Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.
~ Robert Pinsky
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
~ Ezra Pound
Poetry is life distilled.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~ Heinrich Heine
It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.
~ I. A. Richards
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
~ Mark Strand
We love the things we love for what they are.
~ Robert Frost
A poem should not mean but be.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
~ Hans Arp
Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.
~ Alexandra Cousteau
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
~ W. H. Auden
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
~ A. L. Rowse
Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.
~ Yang Wanli