Brazen Quote by Philip Sidney

“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests…

— Anthony Trollope

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great poets get their inspiration from nature

— Russyb

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

— Mary Oliver

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem…

— Mary Ruefle

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

“Nature has painted beauty across the earth; may human hearts forever reflect its grace.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving