Quotes About Poetry

There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words. He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. I come to you as a man unfinished.

She has an arse men should write sonnets to. . . .

Roses red and vi'lets blue, Sugar's sweet, and so are you

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.