Commonplace Quote by William Osler

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry…

— William Osler

“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art…

— Anne Stevenson

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

— Gaston Bachelard

“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate…

— Adrienne Rich

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

— Virginia Woolf

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

— J. M. Coetzee