Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry Quotes

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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry