#poe

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#die #hands #hearts #nations #poets

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#burning #gets #heart #philosophy #poetry

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#make #men #object #poetry #prophecy

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#considered #i #interest #myself #never

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#another #back #becomes #every #every heart

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#life #music #poetry #art

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#poetry #art

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#artist #painting #poem #poet #poetry

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#dreams