Beauty Quote by Jacob Nordby

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“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

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests…

— Anthony Trollope

“I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.”

— Bryant McGill

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no defenses against.”

— Sanober Khan

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative…

— Hermann Hesse

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees…

— Rumi