The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie Before Him Unwillingness to remain in the ruts of former Buddha patriarchs Unsurpassed aspiration and fierce passion to achieve the ...
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painti...
Elizabeth Bennet: And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love? Mr. Darcy: I thought that poetry was the food of love. Elizabeth Bennet: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclin...
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions.
An art is a poetry but only a few can read it.
Life is a never-ending poetry of love.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
