Heaven Quote by Anonymous

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks…

— G K Chesterton

“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Critics are much madder than poets... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea,…

— Chesterton, G.K

“The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head – and it…

— G.K. Chesterton

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished us, make…

— George Eliot

“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

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the…

— William Shakespeare

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You can't be any earthly good if your head is always in the heavens.”

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side…

— Criss Jami

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . .…

— Christopher Fry