Quotes About Belief

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

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.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.