Poetry Quote by May Swenson Download Open image ““"It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.”” — May Swenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Religion
“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The problem with religion is that it blends this truth so thoroughly with the venom of unreason.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The trouble is I have the religious temperament but I don't have the belief.” — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother with a question mark. My calling was so obvious; it was written all over me. Two years later, I would be living in my own convent as an order of one, typing poetry in the deep glowing hours… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share
“Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“...religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.” — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.” — Björk Copy Share Image
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“Love came bearing love A chalice of light We bathed in love and drank it Then our flesh Seemed like the leaves Enameled bright… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“Body my house my horse my hound What will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“an Evolution strange two Tongues touch exchange a Feast unknown to stone or tree or beast” — May Swenson Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
