Quotes About Life

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Let yourself become living poetry.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.