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Poetry Quotes by Robert Bly
- What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul…
- The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place…
- When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to…
- My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will…
- One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has…
- Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
- Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- 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
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood