Quotes About Simplicity

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

Petals don't ask Where to landThey just fall With grace.

Purity is defined by the clearness of the stars

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.