Books Quote by Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou

“All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the courage to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“A great poet from ancient times put it this way: Love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most subtle of…

— Oscar Wilde

“No. It was neither heroes nor sacrifice nor yet virtues that she loved most; rather the poetry which spoke to her of dreams that…

— Halldór Laxness

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

“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

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“Ars Poetica I taught my words to love, I showed them my heart and would not give up until their syllables did not start…

— Nichita Stănescu

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it was the…

— James Lee Burke

“I reached for the notebook which was always close by. All thoughts of composing epic poems of Greek heroes had left me. The words…

— Nancy Moser