Life Quote by Paul Valéry

“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.”

— Mark Twain

“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see…

— Fernando Pessoa

“No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.”

— John Myhill

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to achieve a…

— the mag man

“... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.”

— Wallace Stevens

“A world of pure reason, he argued with himself, a world devoid of imaginative sentiment, must be a heartless, monotonous, loveless place. No, this…

— Jacob G. Rosenberg

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz