Quotes About Wisdom

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

Hatred begets One with eyes Closed, The wiser's love cannot be sourced.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

You keep playing with what broke you, then wonder why you don't heal.Leave the wound alone, throw away the poison, and watch the magic of recovery.Your wings of wisdom are ready for flight.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Faith has answers that the ears can't always hear.

In the shade of words sits life itself.

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.