Quotes About Wisdom

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

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.

Every word was once a poem.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.