““By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song. Only two or three primitive passions had governed me until this time: fear, the struggle to conquer fear, and the yearning for freedom. But now two new passions were kindled inside me: beauty and the thirst for learning.””
![“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0a5/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beauty_poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-fr_3206301.jpg)
![“A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every…” quote by Nikos Kazantzakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c6a/nikos-kazantzakis-1116_astonishing_a-magical-portal-opened-inside-my-mind-a_2506787.jpg)
