"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."

Poetry, Expression, Language, Limitation

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"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Movement, Memory, Time

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Poetry, Sound, Words, Movement

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Poetry, Nature, Metaphor, Life

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Creativity, Identity, Words

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poetry,

"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Prayer, Darkness, Choice, Hope

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Poetry, Death, Peace, Rest, Eternity

"Wine is bottled poetry."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

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"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."

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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

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