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- There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how…
- Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,…
- Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse of the minds…
- Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.…
- God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there…
- An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full…
- Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they…
- God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer…
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear,…
- Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a…
- She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other…
- When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it…
- Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is…
- Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
- Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your…
- Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
- [M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your…
- To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance…
- You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is…
More Poetry Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden