"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

Poetry, Reason, Wounds

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Poetry, Geometry, May

"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . ."

Carew Papritz, American Author

Poetry, Beauty, Observation, Emotion, Truth

"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

Poetry, Idea, Beginning, Chance

"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

Poetry, Emotion, Truth, Observation

"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."

John Drinkwater, English Poet

Poetry, Being, Emotion, Expression

"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Poetry, Imagination, Fantasy, Creativity, Thought

"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."

Anthony Hecht, American Poet

Poetry, Secrets

"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Peace, Beauty, Truth, Hope

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, American Writer

Poetry, Alchemy, Nothing, Pain

"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Old, Eternity

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"Where no gods are, spectres rule."

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"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it."

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"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men."

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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . ."

"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."

"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."

"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock."

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"Where no gods are, spectres rule."

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"A character is a completely fashioned will."

"Where children are, there is the golden age."

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"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."

"Character and fate are two words for the same thing."

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it."

"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men."

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."