#poe

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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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

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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

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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

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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

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