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Quotes About Heart

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
~ W.H. Auden
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
~ Andres Segovia
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.
~ Ja Rule
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.
~ Marc-Andre Fleury
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
~ Tara Brach
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
~ Ray Bradbury
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
~ Anne Sexton
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
~ Madame de Stael
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.
~ Sidney Lanier
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
~ Frederick Sommer
When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.
~ Steve Winwood
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
~ Erica Jong
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
~ William Wordsworth
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
~ Alexander Pope
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
~ Goldwin Smith
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
~ David Eugene Smith
poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
~ Marjorie Holmes
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
~ Brad Leithauser
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
~ Cheryl Hines