#poe

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#learn #poetry #science #those #who

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#poetry #sunday #truth

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#every #i #into #me #myself

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#experience

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#day #hunger #intolerable #invented #poetry

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #seeking #sources #spirit

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

#does #ever #greatest #greatest thing #human

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

#clearly #prophecy #religion #see

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest