Quotes About Life

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.