#poet

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#art #designed #done #enough #first

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#book #chapter #chapters #first #poetry

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#transcendence #art

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #conformity #creativity #nonconformity #poetry

Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter; ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#art

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry ↗

— Krista Tippett

#heart #humanity #language #poetry #religion

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. ↗

— George Oppen

#any #beautiful #beautiful thing #clarity #did

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. ↗

— May Sarton

#poetry #death

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#poetry #subject #war

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp ↗

— Roxanne Catherine Mapp

#designing-women #immigrant #island #poetry #trinidad-tobago