#poet

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. ↗

— James Martineau

#language #more #music #poetry #possible

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#been #culture #eliot #english #example

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#direct #fortune #i #i am #indirect

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#dream #dreamer #feel #know #life

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #lot #narcissistic #poetry

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

#poetry #truth #way

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. ↗

— Henry Moore

#interested #musician #person #poet #sculptor

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#background #came #chinese #did #i