Quotes and Sayings about Poetry

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books Foolishness

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

Words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words Writing

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

John F. Kennedy

Power Poems Arroganz

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Eugenio Montale

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Eugenio Montale

Art

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Eugenio Montale

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Words Magic

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

Words

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Hollywood Undead - Lion

Words

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

Words Appearance

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

One does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one's liking.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Miracles

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.

W. S. Merwin

Trees

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.

W. S. Merwin - The Moon Before Morning

Failures & Mistakes Fate & Destiny

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Faith Reality

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Neighbors

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships. You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

Harlan Coben in The Woods

Spirituality

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Kirstie Alley

Spirituality

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Inspiration

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

Magic: The Gathering () - Crude Rampart

Success Despair Inspiration

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Audre Lorde

Love

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

Humanity Tolerance

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Cassandra Clare in The Dark Artifices - Lady Midnight

Love declerations

I sometimes wonder, if we can ever quite understand other people. All we can do is try, I suppose.

Cassandra Clare in The Last Hours - Chain of Iron

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

Words

Those who dream by day are are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Dreaming

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness Patience & Endurance Butterflies

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love Courage

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

You should know that all power comes at a price. For every bit of power you gain, so too do you gain more responsibility.

Zhongli in Genshin Impact

Power

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

Denise Levertov

Poems

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Dylan Thomas

Poems

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