Abyss Quote by Mahmoud Darwish

“The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]”

— Alan Booth

“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is dialogue with…

— Martin Buber

“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches the tempest;…

— Victor Hugo

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished us, make…

— George Eliot

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense…

— George Eliot

“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?”

— Plato

“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us back here,…

— Italo Calvino

“In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert…

— Aleister Crowley

“If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens. Such a…

— Paul Reps

“But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and…

— Gustave Flaubert

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

— Philip James Bailey

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous