Alive Quote by Teju Cole

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Life is so mysterious and illustrious that no one can touch or feel it. Without life or consciousness, a body becomes a lifeless transient…

— Debasish Mridha

“…have poets write about you as if you are alive. Scientifically, it is absolutely true, you are alive. You have a pulse, the waves,…

— Susan Zwinger

“Though the body is its genesis, a poem is the vision of a process Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space Carved in space,…

— Frank Bidart

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

— Clive Barker

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

— C. S. Lewis

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

— Conrad Aiken

“to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream…

— Marcus Aurelius

“We are all souls wandering the cosmos and, at the same time, living our lives, but with a sense that we are passing from…

— Paulo Coelho

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

— Gustave Flaubert