#poe

Modern evangelicals like to compare holy things to soft drinks, designer clothes, [and other products in] our modern consumerist culture. The problem with this is not ... the comparison to a created thing. The problem is that it is ... bad poetry. The Bible compares God to very mundane things, but does so with poetic wonder. God "shall come down like rain upon the mown grass; as showers that water the earth. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#architecture

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #poetry #art

this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape? ↗

— Lucy Grealy

#poetry #art

you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing ↗

— Naomi Shihab Nye

#art

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #details #intuition #nerd #nerdiness

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#individual #poetry #tradition #art

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#creativity #poetry #poets #reality #writers

Todo el mundo sabe dónde encontrar la poesía. Y, cuando aparece, uno siente el roce de la poesía, ese especial estremecimiento. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#art

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ↗

— Alexander Pope

#poetry #art