Quotes About Spirituality

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

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

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

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

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

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

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

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

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.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

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

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

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

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

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

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.