Faith Quote by Patrick White

“Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.”

— Nathan Lopes Cardozo

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.”

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

— Jean Cocteau

“The essence of a religious approach to the world, it seems to me, is to be found, not in the imposition of theological dogma,…

— Anonymous

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

— Dana Gioia

“In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]”

— Robert Von Hallberg

“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry…

— David N. Elkins

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“‎"It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.”

— May Swenson

“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.”

— Umberto Eco

“Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in…

— Paramahansa Yogananda