Brazilian-poetry Quote by Cecilia Meireles

“Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though…

— Khalil Gibran

“For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love.”

— Radclyffe Hall

“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before…

— John Donne

“In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Though the ear choose not to hear, In the heart I echo,clear: Always found, and never sought, Praised, as well as cursed, in thought.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato