#poe

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#almost #bengali #classical #classical music #european

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. ↗

— Paul Valery

#deprive #difficulties #him #his #ideas

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives. ↗

— Henry Reed

#dream #dreams #hear #helps #impacts

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. ↗

— Laura Riding

#making #mere #only #poem #poet

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#earth #knows #like #poems #returned

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#feel #make #office #poetry #think

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#being nice #between #cards #change #cute

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas