Giving Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal…

— Robert Greene

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

— Max Jacob

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden

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

— Mark Twain

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

— Mark Twain

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused…

— Louise Bogan

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

“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

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy…

— Milan Kundera

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand