Perennial-philosophy Quote by Frithjof Schuon

“A school of esotericism usually arises in connection with some special realization of the Truth, which it sometimes stresses beyond its due proportion to…

— Dion Fortune

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of…

— Sam Hamill

“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

“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one…

— Debasish Mridha

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

— William Empson

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades…

— Cristina Garcia

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way…

— Will Willingham

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur