Discovery Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Love is the poetry of the senses.

— Honore de Balzac

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only…

— Kiki Dimoula

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

— Alexander Smith

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

— Rene Char

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

— E. M. Forster

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall…

— Stephane Mallarme

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

— Charles Williams

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

— Rumi