Quotes About Wonder

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

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

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

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

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.