Heaven and earth Quote by Alan Booth

“In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?”

— Plato

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense…

— George Eliot

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

“∞ The Unseen Universe A Poem by Alexander Martini We live within the universe. Not far, not foreign. But at its heart. An ocean…

— Alexander Martini

“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is dialogue with…

— Martin Buber

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.”

— Euginia Herlihy