#poet

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

#make #men #object #poetry #prophecy

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

#considered #i #interest #myself #never

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

#life #music #poetry #art

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

#artist #painting #poem #poet #poetry

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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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. ↗

— Aberjhani

#despair #grief #national-poetry-month #pain #peace-movement

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#poets #romance #experience