Quotes About Transcendence

I am not me, I am not a human being.I am empty. Infinite emptiness dwells in me.I am the spirit.Emptiness is me.

Music is the language of love, nature, and eternity.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

All things want to float.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.