Poetry Quote by Marie Corelli

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

— Jean Cocteau

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

— Matthew Arnold

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be…

— Corliss Lamont

Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of…

— Starhawk

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer…

— Flannery O'Connor

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life…

— Kathleen Norris