Clarity Quote by Tony Juniper

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons…

— Aberjhani

“For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From…

— W.H. Auden

“The only true revolutionary is the one who affects a lifestyle which takes the imminent destruction of the entire species as a basic premise.”

— Marco Vassi

The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of…

— Adrian Matejka

“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness,…

— Virginia Woolf

“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

— John F. Kennedy

“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect your heart.”

— Elma Mitchell

“I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens