Awakening Quote by Jacques Maritain

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process…

— Michael Franti

“But, back of this, still broods silently the deep religious feeling of the real Negro heart, the stirring, unguided might of powerful human souls…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.

— Shenhui

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long…

— Robert Frost

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the…

— Charles Ives

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

— Stanley Kunitz

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

— James Broughton

“That is the difference between a botanist and a poet: a botanist knows about the flower, the poet knows the flower.”

— Osho