Poetry Quote by Bjork Download Open image ““On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me It's Pagan poetry Pagan poetry”” — Bjork ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
“What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise man weeps… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“this is actualy a poem we have been called naive as if it were a dirty word, whe have been called innocent as though with shame our cheeks should burn so we visit with the careful idols of cynisism to learn to sneer and pant and walk so as not to feel the scales of judgement rub wrongly but we… — Jewel Kilcher Copy Share
“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforth in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Girls, be good to these spirits of music and poetry that breast your threshold with their scented gifts. Lift the lyre, clear and sweet,… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
“... that eternally restless, eternally unquenched desire for naked paganism, that love that is the supreme joy, that is divine serenity itself- those things… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.” — Björk Copy Share Image
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal. People keep thinking of professional music studios like they've always been this way for hundreds of years, but they're very much a child of the 70s. Even the interior is very 70s. Everything's brown and it's… — Bjork Copy Share
“I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let's face it, and let's stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at… — Björk Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency. — Bjork Copy Share Image
“You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.” — Bjork Copy Share Image
In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. — Bjork Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
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