#poet

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. ↗

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said I love you madly. That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year. ↗

— Frederick Seidel

#love #poetry #beauty

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. ↗

— Dean Young

#art

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#poetry #beauty

...when I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty #love-at-first-sight #poetry-quotes-love #beauty

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... ↗

— John Geddes

#poetry #reflection #sleep #truth-of-life #truths

[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms. ↗