Ancient Quote by Werner Herzog

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It…

— Lord Byron

So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your…

— DJ Spooky

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts…

— John Ruskin

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

— David Attenborough

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising…

— Joshua Reynolds

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether…

— William Hazlitt

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

— Mary Ruefle

It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement…

— Anonymous

“We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe…

— David Livingstone Smith

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those holy or…

— Robinson Jeffers

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking…

— Manmohan Acharya

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch