Quotes About Depth

The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love.

And if people can see themselves for who they really are, they will know that every person has a dark side!~ Aarush Kashyap

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn't 'soothe.'

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

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.

What can be explained is not poetry.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

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

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.