Poetry is the deification of reality.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

“God's Incarnation opens the way to man's deification. To be deified is, more specifically, to be “christified”: the divine likeness that we are called…

— Kallistos Ware

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our…

— Eduardo Galeano

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!”

— Uncle Arnie Mamath

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise

“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.”

— Abraham Hicks

“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

— Kathryn Schulz

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

— Amy Sedaris

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

— John Mayall

In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is…

— Elliott Colla

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

— Hermann Hesse