Quotes About Faith

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

Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

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

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.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

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

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

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

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

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.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.